Memoir Written During a Survey of the Watling Street: From the Tees to the Scotch Border, in ... 1850 and 1851 ... |
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... UNDER WHOSE AUSPICES AND BY WHOSE MUNIFICENCE THE SURVEY OF THE ROMAN ROAD FROM THE RIVER SWALE TO THE SCOTCH BORDER WAS UNDERTAKEN AND ACCOMPLISHED , This Memoir is Dedicated . MEMOIR WRITTEN DURING A SURVEY OF THE WATLING STREET ,
... UNDER WHOSE AUSPICES AND BY WHOSE MUNIFICENCE THE SURVEY OF THE ROMAN ROAD FROM THE RIVER SWALE TO THE SCOTCH BORDER WAS UNDERTAKEN AND ACCOMPLISHED , This Memoir is Dedicated . MEMOIR WRITTEN DURING A SURVEY OF THE WATLING STREET ,
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... river ; and one projecting from the face of a quarry at Carlbury , on the west of the road , to be seen as you pass by . The camp at Pierse Bridge is ten miles two furlongs from Cataractonium , in a straight line ; and ten miles three ...
... river ; and one projecting from the face of a quarry at Carlbury , on the west of the road , to be seen as you pass by . The camp at Pierse Bridge is ten miles two furlongs from Cataractonium , in a straight line ; and ten miles three ...
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... river Gaunless at a very favourable spot , where it is free from those deep sinuosities for which it is remarkable . Before we reach this spot , however , it is necessary to notice an ancient way crossing the Watling Street at right ...
... river Gaunless at a very favourable spot , where it is free from those deep sinuosities for which it is remarkable . Before we reach this spot , however , it is necessary to notice an ancient way crossing the Watling Street at right ...
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... river made nearly a right angle in its general course , and at the same time received the Gaunless , it seems not impossible , that it is entirely composed of it . From this it will be seen , that Binchester was a place of great ...
... river made nearly a right angle in its general course , and at the same time received the Gaunless , it seems not impossible , that it is entirely composed of it . From this it will be seen , that Binchester was a place of great ...
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... river , we might select an oblique descent from the market - place , near the park wall , along the present road by Jock's Row , and up the precipice , by a singular water - worn projection , having all the appearance of an artificial ...
... river , we might select an oblique descent from the market - place , near the park wall , along the present road by Jock's Row , and up the precipice , by a singular water - worn projection , having all the appearance of an artificial ...
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50 yards acres ancient angle Antiq appears ascends Auckland bend Binchester Birdhope Bishop Auckland Brancepeth Bremenium Brit British brook Broomley Brusselton called Camden centre Chew Green Colcester conjectured Corbridge Corsenside course Crag curve declivity Devil's Causeway Dilston Hall distance ditch Durham east side eastward Ebchester Elsdon entrance entrenchment faint traces Farm farm-house feet field Foulplay furlongs gate gateway Gaunless Golden Pot ground height Hodgson Horsley Hutchinson hypocaust Lanchester Leadgate Longovicum Mackenzie's Hist Map-Sheet miles Moor nearly north front north-west Northumberland originally pass Pierse Bridge plough present road presumed rampart rectangular Rede remains Riding Mill right-lined Risingham river river Rede river Wear Rochester Roman camp Roman wall Rowley Roy's Milit runs seems probable seen south-west spot Stagshaw Bank station stones straight line stream summit supposed Surtees Swinburne Castle traverse in front tumulus turnpike turnpike-road visible Watling Street west front west side westward Whittonstall