 | George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - Great Britain - 1768 - 710 pages
...extended, from north to fouth, about ninety miles, running along the fides and bottoms of the hills, from the mouth of the river Dee to that of the Wye near Chepftow. It is thought to have been an imitation of the ramparts thrown up by Agricola, Adrian,... | |
 | George Lyttelton (1st baron.) - 1769 - 532 pages
...extended, from north to fouth, about ninety miles, running along the fides and bottoms of the hills, from the mouth of the river Dee to that of the Wye near Chepftow. It is thought to have been an imitation of the ramparts thrown up by Agricola, Adrian,... | |
 | George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - Great Britain - 1777 - 534 pages
...extended, from north to louth, about ninety miles, running along the lides and bottoms of the hills, from the mouth of the river Dee to that of the Wye near Chepftow. It is thought to have been an imitation of the ramparts .thrown up by Agricola, Adrian,... | |
 | Daniel King - Cheshire (England) - 1778 - 592 pages
...Saxons ; and as a boundary and barrier againft future invafions, he threw up that prodigious trench from the mouth of the river Dee, to that of the Wye, extending about ninety miles, and fince called OfFa's Dyke. " This Fofs, fays the right reverend "... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - France - 1828 - 430 pages
...celebrated trench which is still called by his name. This trench, which extended from North to South, — from the mouth of the river Dee to that of the Wye,...Agricola, Adrian, and Severus, to guard the Romans against the incursion of the Northern barbarians j but from some remains of it, as well as for several... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - France - 1828 - 426 pages
...celebrated trench which is still called by his name. This trench, which extended from North to South, — from the mouth of the river Dee to that of the Wye,...Agricola, Adrian, and Severus, to guard the Romans against the incursion of the Northern barbarians ; but from some remains of it, as well as for several... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 158 pages
...NOTE 14. Offa, King of Mercia, made a ditch to separate his Saxon subjects from the Britons, extending from the mouth of the river Dee to that of the Wye, a distance of nearly 80 miles. This was called Clawdd Offa (Offa's dyke) hy the Welsh.* NOTE 15. The... | |
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South, — from the mouth of the river Dee to that of the Wye, — has been thought to have been an imitation of the ramparts which were thrown up by Agricola, Adrian, and Severus, to guard the Romans... 