 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1879 - 480 pages
...surrounded by a mound or ditch for the security of the inhabitants and their cattle. And Strabo says, " When they have enclosed a very large circuit with...within it houses for themselves and hovels for their cattle."5 That the people of Dartmoor should prefer granite to felled trees for such an enclosure is... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - Forest ecology - 1879 - 300 pages
...security of themselves and cattle against the incursions of their enemies ; " and Strabo remarks that " the forests of the Britons are their cities ; for when they have inclosed a very large circuit with felled trees, they build within it houses for themselves, and hovels... | |
 | Pictorial geographical reader - 1882 - 184 pages
...founded many of the most famous. We are told by an ancient writer that ' the forests of the Britons were their cities ; for when they have enclosed a very...houses for themselves, and hovels for their cattle.' 1 Julius Cassar tells us, ' What the Britons call a town is a tract of woody country, surrounded by... | |
 | Robert Collyer - England - 1885 - 442 pages
...title of a city, but he means no more by this than what we should call a log fort in the woods, because Strabo says — " The forests of the Britons are their cities, for when they have enclosed a space with felled trees, they build within it houses of a frail sort, and hovels for their cattle "... | |
 | Rev. A. Scott (of Rothbury.) - Anglo-Israelism - 1894 - 154 pages
...a vallum and ditch, for the security of themselves and cattle against the incursions of an enemy ; for when they have enclosed a very large circuit with...houses for themselves and hovels for their cattle. Their weapons of warfare consisted of small spears, long broad-swords, and hand-daggers, and they defend... | |
 | Edmund Bogg - England - 1894 - 370 pages
...the skirts of the forest the Britons had smaller towns, encompassed by a wall or stockade of trees. Strabo says: — "The forests of the Britons are their cities, for when they have enclosed a space with trees, they build within it houses of a frail sort, and sheds for cattle. At the beginning... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - Great Britain - 1907 - 344 pages
...myths. We may dismiss then all ideas of the magnificence of ancient British towns. Strabo states that " the forests of the Britons are their cities ; for...very slight, and not designed for long duration." Diodorus Siculus calls them wretched cottages, constructed of wood and covered with straw. Most of... | |
 | Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - Cheshire (England) - 1912 - 396 pages
...were constructed of poles and wattled work of circular form, with lofty tapering roofs;" and again, "the forests of the Britons are their cities, for when they have enclosed a large circuit with felled trees, they build within it the houses for themselves, and hovels for their... | |
 | Great Britain - 1886 - 368 pages
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The forests of the Britons are their cities ; for, when they have enclosed a very large circuit with felled trees, they build within it houses for themselves and hovels for their cattle. 
