Supplement to the antiquities of England and Wales (1777)
Grose, Francis · London: Printed for S. Hooper · leaf 100
its figure a pentagon ; on its topare fcveral machicolations and loopholes. The foundation of it wasmuch above the top of the tower of the church, and it muft have beenalmoft impregnable before the invention of ordnance. It is vulgarlycalled the Bowe and Arrow Caftle, and the Caftic of Rufus,… … Jfoman.^mp/i//:/i/a/re Derr^^.rfer. THE ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE NEAR DORCHESTER, This earthen work is univerfally allowed to have been a Roman amphitheatre; itis, for what reafonis unknown, vulgarly called Maumbury. The following accountof it is given in Hutchinss Hiftory of Dorfetfliire: That in this…
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