Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932, Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956, Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980 · London, J. Murray · leaf 207
f small huts of a circular or oval planwith sundry rectangular cells, all alike put together of unhewn 152 THE CONVERSION OF ENGLAND and uncemented stones, that by an ingenious system of con-struction serve for walls and roof (Fig. 22). The huts werethe dwellings of Irish ascetics, who in the Early… … Fig. 21.—Skellig Michael from the sea. power of the air. The high antiquity of this settlement isproved by the fact that the structures exhibit a close resem-blance in technique to pagan work—a sure test of age—whileit was important enough in 823 to attract the hostilenotice of the Vikings.^ It is…
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