Prehistoric Villages Castles and Towers of Southwestern Colorado
18 ) , also constructed of upright stone slabs or megaliths . Three of the latter
have concentric surrounding walls with a " vestibule " entrance ( ? ) at the south
somewhat like rooms at the bases of towers . One of these is said by Morley and
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Phallic Objects Monuments and Remains
The Towers and Temples of Ancient Ireland
As an evidence of the inferiority of the Irish genuine Christian architecture to the
English of the same period , I would notice the fact that , while several specimens
of Bell - towers of stone of the early Norman period exist in England , there is no ...
Author: Marcus Keane
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The Theory Practice and Architecture of Bridges of Stone Iron Timber and Wire
One of the figures in Plate 89 shows a plan of the double iron tower which forms
one of the piers of suspension . ... towers of this last pier is a platform 80 feet in
length by 40 feet in breadth , paved with Purbeck stone , and beneath are
galleries ...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Austral Africa Losing it Or Ruling it
Stone towers are still in use in the Caucasus, and round towers of dry stone,
without mortar, are used in parts of Italy. I)ry-stone ruins are also met with in
Sardinia and in the Balearic Islands. Describing Spain under the Moors,
Washington ...
Author: John Mackenzie
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Sharpe s London Magazine of Entertainment and Instruction for General Reading
The are all of the same peculiar and striking form , and , with building is finished
at the top with a conical roof of the exception of two similar towers in Scotland ,
there stone . are no buildings like them in any part of Christian In the architectural
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Sharpe s London magazine a journal of entertainment and instruction entitled Sharpe s London journal entitled Sharpe s London magazine conducted by mrs S C Hall
The are all of the same peculiar and striking form , and , with building is finished
at the top with a conical roof of the exception of two similar towers in Scotland ,
there stone . are no buildings like them in any part of Christian In the architectural
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The Charters Towers Gold Mines
A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Town and Gold Field of Charters
Towers, Queensland, with Full and ... 4 level , here for the first time mentioned ,
has been driven in all up to date , 9 ft .; there is , at present , 6 ft . of stone in this
drive .
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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Of semicircular - headed doorways cut out of a single stone , we have examples
in the round towers of Glendalough , Co. Wicklow ; Killree , Co. Kilkenny ; Armoy ,
Co. Antrim . The heads of all these are thorough ; but I know of no instance ...
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Sumer
The Builder
The Round Towers of Ulster
Curiosities of London
Extinguishing and Preventing Oil and Gas Fires
When this tower was full of stone the absorbing action proved much too great ,
consequently more than half of the filler ... The writer believes stone towers of this
type are not only unnecessary but are prejudicial to the action desired and that a
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Author: Clifford Pinkney Bowie
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A History of the Deccan
Capacious towers of large hewn stone were at every hundred yards much
neglected and many fallen in the ditch. The curtain was of great height perhaps
forty feet from the benne of the ditch entirely built of huge stones strongly
cemented and ...
Author: James Dunning Baker Gribble
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Towers of Stone
In the stone market square, crouching on a small bench, there sat some
mustachioed old men in fur hats. They stared at this war spectacle in the
mountains without exchanging a word, practically without moving. They sat in that
market square ...
Author: Wojciech Jagielski
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ISBN: 1609800397
Page: 336
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Journal of the British Archaeological Association
The shape of these round towers seems to be entirely a case of necessity . It
would have been next to impossible to construct them of any other shape but that
of a circle without the use of stone to form the quoins ; and , from the careful and ...
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