Mr Eyton has shown that for the castellum Warham of Domesday Book we ought to read Corfe, because the castle was built in the manor of Kingston, four miles from Wareham.
The whole of this passage is worth quoting: "Castellum in ea situm, editissimo aggere sublatum, muro inexpugnabile obseptum, turribus Caesarianis inseissili calce confectis firmatum.
Et in rupe et in insula nulli licuit facere fortitudinem, et nulli licuit in Normannia castellum facere.
Fulk and his son Geoffrey] "in occidentali parte montiscastellum determinaverunt.
It is probable that the Castle of Bramber occupies the site of a Roman Castellum and a Saxon fortress, some say a palace of the Saxon kings.
The town, supposed to occupy the site of Castellum Menapiorum, was a Roman station, as numerous remains of the Gallo-Roman period attest, and an important centre of roads.
But by this time we had all put spurs to our horses, and we dashed past the ugly castellum and across the ford without receiving any hurt, albeit a quarrel did hit the lord abbat's steed near unto the tail and make him caper.
The castellum or baronial mansion stood on the top of Caversham hill at the point where that hill is steepest; the village lay at its feet, and the church then stood midway between the castle and the village.
Peradventure it may be better that thou stayest in safety where thou art, and that we leave this vile castellum to be reduced by regular siege at some future day.
Every castle that they took was burned and destroyed, like Sir Ingelric's castellum at Speen.
Besides the articles already enumerated, there were picked up within the castellum some large glass beads of somewhat singular appearance, (Plate VII.
The fragments, doubtless, as Hodgson conjectures, formed one stone, deposited in the foundation of some castellum in this neighbourhood, as a memorial of its erection by Hadrian.
Illustration: Section of Works, Wallbours] Within a short mile of the station, the remains of a castellum appear.
In the foundations of the castellum at Milking-gap a stone was discovered (p.
In the ruins of the castellum near Cawfields, was a portion of another, with a precisely similar inscription (p.
Until recently, the castellum was nearly covered with its own ruins.
Before reaching the Irthing, at a farm-house called Willowford, the site of anothercastellum may be discerned.
There cannot be a doubt that the castellum and the Wall were built at the same time, and by the same parties; if Hadrian therefore built the one, the other is erroneously ascribed to Severus.
Orleansville occupies the site of the Roman Castellum Tingitanum.
Andernach (Antunnacum) is the old Roman Castellum ante Nacum, founded by Drusus and fortified in the 3rd century A.
Arabion castellumwas a fort on the Stranga, or Great Zab, which Mr. F.
Atque vltrà montem in discensu eius in orientem est villa siue castellum Bethaniæ, distans quasi ad leucam ab vrbe vbi in domo cuiusdam Symonis inuitatu Christus condonauit omnia peccata Mariæ Magdalenæ.
In the same spirit he would never admit that the 'Castellum Warham' of Domesday Book was no other than Corfe Castle, although, as Mr Eyton and Mr Bond have shown, the fact is certain.
Henry of Huntingdon The passage relied on by the historian is this: Quum ergo Haroldus totam gentem suam in una acie strictissime locasset et quasi castellum inde construxisset[14] impenetrabiles erant Normannis (iii.
This castellum is a miniature embodiment of Roman taste and skill in architecture.
This temple before us, mutilated as it is, and the aqueduct, though repaired in modern times, are still Roman; and no ancient monument in Italy is in better preservation than the beautiful little castellum which crowns its termination.
Such a party of skirmishers had lately wonCastellum Marcianum, which crowned a rocky height above an extensive pine-wood near Caesena, close to the royal camp.
In the Castellum Aurelium, on the road to Rome, lie four hundred and fifty men.
Spies had related that, on the day after Rauthgundis's arrival in the camp, the new Byzantine garrison ofCastellum Marcianum had dared to threaten Caesena itself, the important town in the rear of the Gothic camp.
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