“The most intriguing feature of Egilsay church is its similarity to Irish churches of the eleventh century. The round tower, for instance, is a feature fairly rare in medieval architecture. Apart from the series of later Anglo-Saxon examples in East Anglia, which are unlikely to have inspired...
aBritish and American English are different in many ways.The first and most obvious way is in the vocabulary.there are hundreds of different words which are not used on the other side of the Atlantic,or which are used with a different meaning.Some of these words are well known-American dri...
Weve been meaning to pop into circa for a month or so, so popped in today and pleased we did as its something really different and I love quirky. Its a nice tasteful mixture of antique/vintage knick knacks to buy and a tearoom. I was totally loving the tables set out with pr...
He stated: ‘While on the surface, the work of the famous French author, Fénelon, entitled the Adventures of Télémaque, conveys the impression of being a romance, its true meaning is in the nature of a philosophical law which includes all the arts of government that have as purpose the ...
Grim’s Ditch, which passes through the present park and estate, is an ancient boundary believed to have been constructed during the Roman occupation of Britain in about the 1st century AD. The toponym ‘Ditchley’ is derived from a compound of two English words, meaning the woodland clearing...
There was a mansio at Caer Llugwy Roman fort. The word ‘Mansio’ comes from the Latin ‘mansus’ meaning a place to stay for rest and refreshment. A Mansio was an official stopping place on a Roman road maintained by the government for the use of officials and those on official business...
There is no real evidence to say that the druids ever used this megalithic structure as an altar for their religious rituals – that is merely myth and legend that hasnosubstance in reality. Or does it? The Celtic term for this monument is “cromlech” meaning “crooked stone” usually a...
Adrian Room (1993) adds more, saying:“This well-known city has a basic name derived from the Old Englishstoc(place), as considered for STOKE-BY- NAYLAND. It is more likely that the meaning here is ‘dependent settlement’, as there is no evi-dence for the latter sense. The addition...
Irish grid reference N0099 3066. The monastic site ofClonmacnoisor (CluainMhicNois) meaning ‘the fields of the hogs of Nos’, stands within a walled monastic enclosure beside the banks of the River Shannon near Shannonbridge, Co. Offaly, Southern Ireland. It dates from 545 AD when St ...