... in these the stones are set on their edge, and placed closely together, so as to form a secure foundation for the superstructure, whether that they were wattle,* turf, stone, or other material. These vestiges strikingly illustrate the descriptions... Transactions - Page 193by Plymouth athenaeum - 1830Full view - About this book
| Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society - Natural history - 1830 - 398 pages
...their edge, and placed closely together, so as to form a secure foundation for the superstruc.' ture, whether that they were wattle,* turf, stone, or other...houses, circular in form, with lofty conical roofs." The foundation slabs above-mentioned, generally stand from eighteen to thirty inches above the surface.... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1831 - 740 pages
...foundation for the superstructure, whether that they were wattle (the junciie cortice virga of Ovid) , turf, stone, or other material. These vestiges strikingly illustrate the descriptions which Dindorus and Strabo give of the habitations of the Britons of their times. The former describes them... | |
| Rachel Evans - Tavistock - 1846 - 346 pages
...closely together, so as to form a secure foundation for the superstructure, whether they were wattleturf, stone, or other material. These vestiges strikingly...Diodorus Siculus, and Strabo give of the habitations of their times ."f The most perfect specimen of the foundation stones of a British hut, we discovered... | |
| Rachel Evans - Tavistock - 1846 - 338 pages
...closely together, so as to form a secure foundation for the superstructure, whether they were wattleturf, stone, or other material. These vestiges strikingly...illustrate the descriptions which Diodorus Siculus, and Stralto give of the habitations of their times."f The most perfect specimen of the foundation stones... | |
| William Henry Kearley Wright - Okehampton (England) - 1889 - 318 pages
...being all that remains of these dwellings, with few exceptions. The huts are circular on the plan, the stones are set on their edge, and placed closely...cottages, constructed of wood, and covered with straw [and sometimes skins]; the latter as wooden houses, circular in form, with lofty conical roofs. The... | |
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