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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
The progress of building has of late years destroyed many of the old historic features of our land, removed ancient earthworks, and covered their sites with modern dwellings; and as the growth and improvement of modern cities have almost effaced the traces of the old fortified towns—which usually formed the centres from which they have spread, so their surrounding villas have not unfrequently destroyed the vestiges of the earthworks that once crowned the hills in their neighbourhood.
page 482 note a Wilde's Catalogue of the Museum of the Eoyal Irish Acad. p. 119, Dublin, 1857. A few instances, however, seem to have been observed by Dr. Petrie.
page 483 note a See “Account of some remarkable Ancient Euins,” &c. by Williams, John, 1777Google Scholar; ArchÆologia, v. 255; vi. 87, 100; x. 147; ArchÆologia Scotica, iv. 160, 280; Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotland, viii. 145; ix. 81, 378, 397; Trans. Roy. Soc. Literature, ii. 227; Macculloch, Highlanders and Western Isles of Scotland, i. 292; and Wilson, Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, ii. 92.
page 483 note b Diet, of Architecture, v. pp. 205, 206; Journ. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. ii. 278, where a plan is given; Archasol. Cambrensis, 3d. Ser. vi. 335.
page 484 note a They are also known in Bohemia; see Proo. Soc. Antiq. Scotl. viii. 155.
page 484 note a Buckman, Remains of Roman Art at Corinium, p. 10.