Identifier: caledoniaorhisto01chal (find matches)
Title: Caledonia : or, a historical and topographical account of North Britain, from the most ancient to the present times with a dictionary of places chorographical & philological
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Chalmers, George, 1742-1825
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Publisher: Paisley : Gardner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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lwark of stones, the remains whereof still exist. Over the ditch, which was ten feet broad, and fourteen feet below the foundation of the wall, a narrow bridge was raised, about eighteen feet long and twofeet broad: this bridge was composed of stones, which had been laid together without much art, and vitrified on all sides, so that the whole mass was firmly (rf) Those intimations correspond with the remains of the several British forts in South-Britain, which had their Cells, and structures, and wells. Pennants Tour in Wales, v. ii., p. 203, 215, 216,321; Archaiol., v. iii., p. 305, pi. xiv. (e) Pennants Tom-, v. ii., p. 157—9 ; Kings Munimenta Antiq., v. i., p. 27. (/) Davis, Richards, and Oweu. (g) OBrien and Shaw: there is a British fortress on Pen-y-crog, in Brecknockshire, which is said to be on the top of a high hill; to be of an oval foi-m, and to be surrounded by three deep and broad entrenchments. Archaiol., v. i., p. 299. See the Drawing of this fortress. / T., r To ftiiY p
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Ch.U.—The Tribes, their Antiquities.) Of NORTH-BRITAIN. 91 cemented: this is the only part of the fortifications which appears to have been intentionally vitrified (h). There seems to be no vestige of a well ; but west-ward, between the base of the mound and the precipice, there was a deep pond which had been recently filled up. The tradition of the country, which is probably derived from the fiction of Boece, relates that this vast strength of Barry-hill was the appropriate prison of Arthurs queen, the well known Guenever, who had been taken prisoner by the Picts. About a quarter of a mile eastward, on the declivity of the hill, there are some remains of another oval fort, which was defended by a strong wall and deep ditch; and which, how-ever, was of less strength than the preceding. The same tradition relates,with similar appearance of fiction, that there was once a subterraneous communication between those two British strengths on Barry-hill (i). There are many forts in every district caledoniaorhisto01chal

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