Sidney Oldall Addy

Name: The Hall of Waltheof — IV. The Bar Dike and Other Earthworks at Bradfield
Author: Sidney Oldall Addy

The Hall of Waltheof — IV. The Bar Dike and Other Earthworks at Bradfield (1893)

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“The Hall of Waltheof — IV. The Bar Dike and Other Earthworks at Bradfield”, published in 1893, is a work by Sidney Oldall Addy. It explores elements such as entrenchment, doom and ring.

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — IV. The Bar Dike and Other Earthworks at Bradfield (1893)

“ The land descends from the Dike both to the north and south. It would seem then that the fosse and mound were intended to protect a piece of ground through which an inroad could be easily made, the nature of the ground at either end being itself a substantial protection. A mile to the north-west of Bar Dike, and running nearly parallel to it, is another entrenchment about three-quarters of a mile in length. This entrenchment runs in a straight course across a comparatively level moor and is divided at right angles by a stream. In this case the fosse is also on the northern side of the mound. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — IV. The Bar Dike and Other Earthworks at Bradfield (1893)

“ The doom-ring was the bar within which the court sat in the open air. "No evil doer," we are told, "might enter this hallowed ring, or commit an act of violence within it; if he did so he was called a vargr í véum," a wolf in holy places. "In early heathen times this sacred circle was formed by a ring of stones (dóm-steinar, court stones, court ring) ; no doubt some of the so-called Celtic or Druidical stone circles are relics of these public courts, e.g. the Stones of Stennis in the Orkneys." [10] A passage in the Landnama mentions a doom-ring in which men were sentenced to be sacrificed. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — IV. The Bar Dike and Other Earthworks at Bradfield (1893)

“ Where wood-work, and indeed almost every other relic of neolithic life has perished, the flint implement, imperishable in its hardness, may well lie scattered over the earth in which the softer and less durable works of early man have long since been dissolved. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — IV. The Bar Dike and Other Earthworks at Bradfield (1893)

“ Yet there must have been doom-rings in England as well as in other parts of Northern Europe. Although Canon Greenwell has said that "circling mounds and trenches are found to surround spaces of ground which have been devoted to the purpose of burial, but where, apparently, no barrow has ever surmounted the graves," [15] he does not appear to have considered that many of these circling mounds may have been doom-rings or public courts. It seems to me that only an adlual exploration in each case can finally decide whether the circle in question is a place of burial or a place of judicature. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — IV. The Bar Dike and Other Earthworks at Bradfield (1893)

“ Now a Cimbric people advancing inland from the sea might be expected to throw up earthworks to defend themselves from the attacks of a people whose country they had invaded, and especially from the attacks of hill tribes. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — IV. The Bar Dike and Other Earthworks at Bradfield (1893)

“ Professor Rolleston concludes that a black-haired people, of short stature, long skulls, and feeble development occupied Great Britain before the invasion of a stronger and taller race with rounded skulls, lighter hair, and lighter complexions. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — IV. The Bar Dike and Other Earthworks at Bradfield (1893)

“ It is very likely then that a short, swarthy people, with long and narrow heads, and of a ferocious and warlike disposition, originally occupied these parts, and that before the coming of the Romans they were invaded by a taller, stronger, and light-haired race who came over from the Danish peninsula. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — IV. The Bar Dike and Other Earthworks at Bradfield (1893)

“ They are more likely to have been ordinary places of judgment, or open-air courts, and it is important to bear in mind that in old times these courts were held not only in the open air but on a plain. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — IV. The Bar Dike and Other Earthworks at Bradfield (1893)

“ Canon Greenwell, however, regards the numerous entrenchments on the Yorkshire wolds as the work of a round-headed people who intruded upon a long-headed people already settled in the country. He finds in the modern Danish head "the same peculiarity of type as is found to exist in the round skull of the barrows." [2] These round-headed people were taller and of more ferocious aspect than the long-headed people. "But the skull of both types is capacious, and the different parts are well balanced ”

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