Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 15
... stones pitched on end in a circular order ; and in the midst of the circle , a vast rude stone placed on several pillars . The diameter of the area is about fifty feet . The stone supported in the midst of this circle is eighteen feet ...
... stones pitched on end in a circular order ; and in the midst of the circle , a vast rude stone placed on several pillars . The diameter of the area is about fifty feet . The stone supported in the midst of this circle is eighteen feet ...
Side 16
... Stone sepulchres ; Wayland Smith's cave at Ashbury , Berks , and Kit's Coty House in Kent , belong to the same class . Are we now to conclude that the people of the Stone age of Denmark found their way hither , and explored the seas and ...
... Stone sepulchres ; Wayland Smith's cave at Ashbury , Berks , and Kit's Coty House in Kent , belong to the same class . Are we now to conclude that the people of the Stone age of Denmark found their way hither , and explored the seas and ...
Side 18
... Stone age , the urn being intended to contain the food for the deceased ; and the third is perhaps that of a later ... stones are commonly found in the centre , forming a cavity in which an urn is often placed . The author is possessed ...
... Stone age , the urn being intended to contain the food for the deceased ; and the third is perhaps that of a later ... stones are commonly found in the centre , forming a cavity in which an urn is often placed . The author is possessed ...
Side 19
... stone and bronze celts , daggers , swords and spear - heads , ornaments and coins . These details sufficiently identify the Celts of Britain with the people of the Bronze age of Denmark . Three distinct peoples have hitherto been traced ...
... stone and bronze celts , daggers , swords and spear - heads , ornaments and coins . These details sufficiently identify the Celts of Britain with the people of the Bronze age of Denmark . Three distinct peoples have hitherto been traced ...
Side 21
... Stone sepulchres and giants ' chambers . The first settlers proceeded from the north of Denmark , about five centuries before the Christian era , being driven out by the unhealthiness of the country , and landed in the mountainous part ...
... Stone sepulchres and giants ' chambers . The first settlers proceeded from the north of Denmark , about five centuries before the Christian era , being driven out by the unhealthiness of the country , and landed in the mountainous part ...
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Ambleside amongst ancient Angles appears Baal belong Beltain Blencogo boggle bone-fires Britain Bronze age burial-place cairn called Cambro-Celts Castle Celtiberians Celtic Celts century CHAPTER Christian colonised connexion Cornwall Cultram Cumberland Cumberland and Westmorland Cumbrian dialect Cumrew Cumwhitton custom Danes Danish Denmark district doubt Eamont Edenhall England English euphonic Europe evidence existence fairies fell fire fireworship former German giants Gothic graves Hiberno-Celtic hill Iberian inhabitants Ireland Irish Irish language island Kendal kind Kirkby Kirkby Stephen Kirkby Thore Lancashire land language late latter Luck of Edenhall means mixed modern monument mountain names of places neighbourhood night Norse observed once origin orthography peculiar Penrith period person pond present probably pronunciation race remains remarkable river Roman Saxon says Scandinavian Silures Stone age story superstition supposed Tatár town traces tradition tribes Ullswater village vowel Wales Welsh Westmorland whilst witch words Worsaae