 | Saint Bede (the Venerable) - 1843 - 418 pages
...stones, but a rampart, with which camps are fortified to repel the assaults of enemies, is made of sods, cut out of the earth, and raised above the ground...rampart, fortified with several towers, from sea to sea J and was afterwards taken sick and died at York, leaving two seven« die sons, Bassianus and Geta... | |
 | Richard Abbatt - England, Northern - 1849 - 100 pages
...stone, but a valium or rampart, with which camps are fortified, is made of pales (valli) and turfs cut out of the earth, and raised above the ground...sods were taken, and strong stakes of wood fixed upon the top. Thus, Severus drew a great ditch and strong rampart fortified with several towers from sea... | |
 | Bede (the venerable.) - 1853 - 488 pages
...out of the earth, and raised high above the ground all round like a wall, so that there is in front the ditch whence the sods were taken, and strong stakes of wood fixed before it. Thus Severus drew a great ditch1 and strong rampart, fortified with frequent towers, from... | |
 | Great Britain - 1853 - 496 pages
...out of the earth, and raised high above the ground all round like a wall, so that there is in front the ditch whence the sods were taken, and strong stakes of wood fixed before it. Thus Severus drew a great ditch1 and strong rampart, fortified with frequent towers, from... | |
 | John Hodgson - Northumberland (England) - 1858 - 416 pages
...authority of Gildas, tell us that the Wall of Severus was not of stone, but a rampart " made of sods, cut out of the earth, and raised above the ground...taken, and strong stakes of wood fixed upon its top."" " The strong stone wall," " which is still to be seen," he says, was built " not far from the trench... | |
 | Saint Bede (the Venerable) - 1881 - 608 pages
...slants, but a rampart, with which camps are fortified to r?pel the assaults of enemies, is made of sods, cut out of the earth, and raised above the ground all round like a wall, harin? in front of it the ditch whence the sods were taken, »nd strong stakes of wood fixed upon its... | |
 | John Veitch - Scottish poetry - 1893 - 394 pages
...stones, but a rampart, with which camps are fortified to repel the assaults of enemies, is made of sods cut out of the earth, and raised above the ground...rampart, fortified with several towers, from sea to sea."1 Whether the statement about the work of Severus as a separate thing from the Eoman Wall is correct... | |
 | John Veitch - Ballads, Scots - 1893 - 394 pages
...stones, but a rampart, with which camps are fortified to repel the assaults of enemies, is made of sods cut out of the earth, and raised above the ground...rampart, fortified with several towers, from sea to sea."1 Whether the statement about the work of Severus as a separate thing from the Eoman Wall is correct... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - Archaeology - 1903 - 444 pages
...built of stones, but the latter is made of sods, cut out of the earth, and raised above the ground like a wall, having in front of it the ditch whence the sods were taken, and stronc stakes were fixed upon its top. In the xiith Chapter of bis First Book we find, however, that... | |
 | James Charles Wall - Earthworks (Archaeology) - 1908 - 174 pages
...stones, but a rampart with which camps are fortified to repel the assaults of enemies is made of sods cut out of the earth and raised above the ground all...taken, and strong stakes of wood fixed upon its top." (Book I, c. 5.) In this study certain terms are used, some of which, while different one from another,... | |
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For a wall is made of stones, but a rampart, with which camps are fortified to repel the assaults of enemies, is made of sods, cut out of the earth, and raised above the ground all round like a wall, having in front of it the ditch whence the sods were... 
