We have undoubted proofs, from history and from existing remains, that the earliest habitations were pits or slight excavations in the ground, covered and protected from the inclemency of the weather by boughs of trees and sods of turf. Prehistoric Annals of Scotland - Page 103by Sir Daniel Wilson - 1863 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1816 - 654 pages
...well delineated. ' We have undoubted proofs from history and from existing remains that the earliest habitations were pits or slight excavations in the...the •weather by boughs of trees and sods of turf. The high grounds were pointed out by nature, as the fittest for7 these early settlements, being less... | |
| 1816 - 660 pages
...delineated. * We have undoubted proofs from history and from existing remains that the sarliest haoitations were pits or slight excavations in the ground, covered...the inclemency of the weather by boughs of trees and sod's of turf. The high grounds were pointed out by nature, as the fittest for these early settlements,... | |
| William Hayley Mason - 1839 - 236 pages
...have, says Sir. RC Hoare, undoubted proofs from history, and from existing remains, that the earliest habitations were pits, or slight excavations in the...the inclemency of the weather, by boughs of trees, or sods of turf. The high grounds were pointed out by nature, as the fittest for these early settlements,... | |
| William Devonshire Saull - 1845 - 84 pages
...have," says Sir RC Hoare, " undoubted proofs from history, and from existing remains, that the earliest habitations were pits, or slight excavations in the...the inclemency of the weather, by boughs of trees, or sods of turf. The high grounds were pointed out by nature, as the fittest for these early settlements,... | |
| 1850 - 418 pages
...state in which he lived. Sir Richard Colt Hoare, in his valuable work on ancient Wiltshire, remarks: "We have undoubted proofs from history, and from existing...the weather by boughs of trees and sods of turf." These locations are almost invariably found in groups, showing the gregarious and social habits of... | |
| Sir Daniel Wilson - 1851 - 776 pages
...wasting tooth of centuries, or the more destructive inroads of modern cultivation. Sir Richard Colt Hoare remarks, in his " Ancient Wiltshire," — " We have...localities of Aberdeenshire ; on the banks of Loch Fine, Argyleshire ; in the counties of Inverness and Caithness ; and in various other districts of... | |
| 1851 - 526 pages
...Scotland, there still remain relics of the dwellings of the primeval races of Britain. Sir RC Hoare remarks, in his " Ancient Wiltshire," " We have undoubted...boughs of trees and sods of turf." Of these primitive pit dwellings, Mr. Wilson informs us numerous traces are discernible in Leuchar Moss, in the parish... | |
| Ruins - 1852 - 464 pages
...state in which he lived. Sir Richard Colt Hoare, in his valuable work on ancient Wiltshire, remarks: "We have undoubted proofs from history, and from existing...the weather by boughs of trees and sods of turf." These locations are almost invariably found in groups, showing the gregarious and social habits of... | |
| 1854 - 506 pages
...Sir RC Hoare, in his valuable work on " Ancient Wiltshire," describes these earlier habitations as pits or slight excavations in the ground, covered...of the weather by boughs of trees and sods of turf ; and he says that occasionally flint arrow-heads are found, mixed with bones and other refuse, indicating... | |
| John Foster - 1858 - 626 pages
...ANCIENT BKITONS. " We have undoubted proofs, from history and from existing remains, that the earliest habitations were pits or slight excavations in the...of the weather by boughs of trees and sods of turf. The high grounds were pointed out by nature, as the fittest for these early settlements, being less... | |
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