Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire, and the Sepulchral Usages of Its Inhabitants: From the Most Remote Ages to the ReformationJ. R. Smith, 1848 - 246 strani |
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Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire, and the Sepulchral Usages of Its ... Thomas Bateman Predogled ni na voljo - 2017 |
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alabaster altar-tomb amongst ancient animal bones antiquity appears Arbor Lowe Bakewell barrow beneath Britons bronze burnt bones Buxton calcined calcined bones calcined human bones called celt centre chancel Chesterfield church circular cist coarse contained covered cross dagger Darley Dale deposit of burnt deposit of calcined Derby Derbyshire discovered discovery earth east effigies engraved excavation exergue Eyam female figures flat stone flint floor fragments ground Hall Harthill head height hill human skeleton inches incised slab inclosed inscription instruments of flint interment iron knight lady large barrow large stone limestones Little Chester ments mile monuments Moor mound natural soil obiit opened ornamented Parwich placed plate armour probably rats relics remains rock Roman road rude Rykneld street sandstone Saxon sculptured sepulchral similar situated small barrow small piece south side Stanton Moor station summit surface teeth tomb tumulus vault wall whilst Wirksworth yards in diameter
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Stran 80 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
Stran 171 - The ground floor was about fourteen feet high, the upper room about sixteen. The entrance to the former appears to have been through a doorway on the south side of the upper room, by a flight of steps, now wholly destroyed, but said to have existed within memory : the present entrance is through an opening made in the wall.
Stran 170 - Castle, and the almost perpendicular chasms that nearly insulate the eminence which it occupies, must, prior to the invention of gunpowder, have rendered it almost impregnable. The east and south sides are bounded by a narrow ravine, called the Cave, which ranges between two vast limestone rocks, and on the east is nearly 200 feet in depth. On the west it is skirted by the precipice which frowns over the great cavern, and rears its abrupt head to the height of 260 feet.
Stran 38 - They are small glass annulets, commonly about half as wide as our finger-rings, but much thicker, of a green colour usually, though some of them are blue, and others curiously waved with blue, red, and white.
Stran 135 - LUTUDARUM, the name of a Roman station, next in order, according to Ravennas, to Derventio or Little Chester, and which is supposed to be Chesterfield, much of the difficulty will vanish. The first will then be found to have the name of the emperor Hadrian, connected with the name of the metallic district of which it is probable that Chesterfield was then, as Wirksworth has subsequently been considered, the regulating town. Hence this inscription would mean no more than that the block of lead upon...
Stran 110 - They all lie on the ground, and generally in an oblique position ; but the opinion that has prevailed, of the narrowest end of each being pointed towards the centre, in order to represent the rays of the sun, and prove that luminary to have been the object of worship, must have arisen from inaccurate observation : for they almost as frequently point towards the ditch as otherwise. Whether they ever stood upright, as most of the stones of druidical circles do, is an enquiry not easy to determine ;...
Stran 91 - It consists of two vaults or chambers, situated in the centre of a cairn, about thirty yards in diameter, each approached by a separate gallery or avenue, formed by large limestones standing edgeways, extending through the tumulus, respectively in a south-east and north-west direction.
Stran 80 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Stran 136 - ... these have been examined by Mr. Pegge with so much attention, as to leave us very little to add to his observations. The first of these, the Rykneld street, or old British road, was repaired by the Romans for their own use. It is called by the name of the Rignal-street in an old Survey of Sir H. Hunloke's property in this county, as well as in those of other estates in Warwickshire and Staffordshire, where it is described as their boundary. It enters Derbyshire from this last county, over the...