 | 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... | |
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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. 
