A History of Hampshire: Including the Isle of Wight. E-book. Formato PDF T. W. Shore   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

A considerable part of the land in the south of the county rests on a substratum of gravel which keeps the soil dry, and has in modern times assisted in attracting a large residential population. Its landlocked harbours, its double tides in South ampton Water, an estuary which stretches into the interior of the land, and leads into the long valleys of the Test and the Itchen, and the many eligible sites for occupation, must have invited settlements at as early a period as any part of Britain. The materials for the History of Hampshire are more abundant than those of most English counties, as will be seen in the following pages. No county offers a richer field for the study of prehistoric or medieval archaeology. A peculiarity in its history is the great part it has played in national history, and especially during the Saxon and Norman periods.

Origin of the Anglo-Saxon Race: A Study of the Settlement of England and the Tribal Origin of the Old English People. E-book. Formato PDF Thomas William Shore   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Anyone who departs from the beaten track, and attempts to obtain some new information from archaeo logical and other research bearing on the Circumstances of the anglo-saxon settlement. Will find many difficulties in his way, and that much time is required to make even small progress. Here and there, however, by the com parison of customs, old laws, the ancient names of places, and other archaeological circumstances, with those of a similar kind in Scandinavia or Germany, some advance may be made.