The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon: A History of the Early Inhabitants of Britain, Down to the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity ; Illustrated by the Ancient Remains Brought to Light by Recent ResearchTrübner & Company, 1885 - 562 pagine |
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Pagina 102 - ... the County of Tipperary, where it had long been known among the people of the neighbourhood by the name given above. It was placed in the arch over the doorway, but has since been taken away. Our second example of the...
Pagina 293 - the method adopted by the Romans of producing the blast necessary to smelt the metal was made apparent. Two tunnels had been formed in the side of a hill ; they were wide at one extremity, but tapered off to a narrow bore at the other, where they met in a point. The mouths of the channels opened towards the west, from which quarter a prevalent wind blows in this valley, and sometimes with great violence. The blast received by them would, when the wind was high, be poured with considerable foree and...
Pagina 260 - Britain, and which not only supplied the whole island with a particular class of earthenware, but which perhaps also furnished an export trade ; for we find urns and other vessels precisely similar to the Upchurch ware in considerable quantity among the Roman pottery dug up in the neighbourhood of Boulogne. The clay which constitutes the soil in the Upchurch marshes is very tenacious, of a dark colour, and of fine quality, well calculated for the manufacture of pottery. The prevailing colour of the...
Pagina 268 - ... to the height of the side walls. The circumference of the bulk was then gradually diminished, and finished in the shape of a dome. As this arrangement progressed, an attendant seems to have followed the packer and thinly covered a layer of pots with coarse hay or grass. He then took some thin clay, the size of his hand, and laid it flat on the grass upon the vessels ; he then placed more grass on the edge of the clay just laid on, and then more clay, and so on until he had completed the circle....
Pagina 466 - ... as he had requested. Then the heroes, weeping, laid down in the midst the famous chieftain, their dear lord. Then began on the hill, the warriors, to awake the mightiest of funeral fires ; the wood-smoke rose aloft, dark from the fire ; noisily it went, mingled with weeping.
Pagina 516 - ... that they refuse us our right and stand up in defence of a thief that we all of us ride thereto with the reeve within whose ' manung ' it may be. 3. And also send on both sides to the reeves and desire from them aid of so many men as may seem to us adequate for so great a suit that there may be the more fear in those culpable men for our assemblage and that we all ride thereto and avenge our wrong and slay the thief and those who fight and stand with him unless they be willing to depart from...
Pagina 454 - ... the respect shown to wickedness rather than goodness, the love of darkness instead of the sun, the admission of Satan as an angel of light. Kings were anointed, not according to God's ordinance, but such as showed themselves more cruel than the rest; and soon after, they were put to death by those who had elected them, without any inquiry into their merits, but because others still more cruel were chosen to succeed them.
Pagina 466 - After the burning of the body had been completed, Beowulf's people proceeded to raise— a mound over the sea ; it was high and broad, by the sailors over the waves to be seen afar. And they built up during ten days the beacon of the war-renowned. They surrounded it with a wall in the most honourable manner that wise men could desire.
Pagina 267 - The mode of manufacturing the bricks of which these kilns are made, is worthy of notice. The clay was previously mixed with about one-third of rye in the chaff, which, being consumed by the fire, left cavities in the room of the grains. This might have been intended to modify expansion and contraction, as well as to assist the gradual distribution of the colouring vapour. The mouth of the furnace and top of the kiln were no doubt stopped ; thus we find every part of the kiln, from the inside wall...
Pagina 66 - ... young men are gladly placed with them by their parents and relations to learn their doctrines. In their schools the pupils are said to learn by heart a large number of verses, and in this way some of their scholars pass twenty years in completing their education...