 | 1828 - 288 pages
...quarto, containing a general history of the town and Castle, with some account of the Cinque Ports. they bear evident marks of having been raised in different...form of a parallelogram, with the angles rounded off, and to secure it with a deep ditch, and a high parapet. This appears to have been the original plan... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...by the deep ditch, and it will be a vain attempt to search after any military works of that people in the castle beyond it, The form of the camp,' the...building, all point out the hand of the Roman engineer and architect. It was common for them, where the ground would admit of it, to make their camp in the form... | |
 | Thomas Dugdale - 1830 - 334 pages
...octagonal watch-tower are placed ; and it would be a vain attempt to search after any Roman millitary work in the castle beyond it. The form of the camp, the ditch, and the octagonal building, all point out the hand of the Roman engineer and the Roman architect. Where... | |
 | Francis Thomas Vine - Great Britain - 1886 - 278 pages
...The Roman fortifications," says Batcheller, " were bounded by the deep ditch, and it will be in vain to search after any military works of the Romans in...form of a parallelogram with the angles rounded off, and to secure it with a deep ditch and a high parapet. This appears to have been the original plan... | |
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Roman fortifications, and all the works we can now trace of that enterprising and warlike people, upon the hill, near Dover, are bounded by the deep ditch, and it will be a vain attempt to search after any military works of the Romans in the castle beyond... 