. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . ch fromLysonss Enrir. I. 348, § Merton Chancel. No. 10 is from the Tower of Durham Cathedral, taken fromthe plate in Hutchinsons Durham,\i. 227. No. 13 is an arch of the timeofEdw. III. taken from LysonssGloucestershire Etchings. No. is from a building of the date of Henry VI. No. 17 is anarch No. \%is a horse-shoe arch, from Grose and Canterbury.* ARCHITECTURE OF THE BRITONS, ANGLO-SAXONS, NORMANS,AND ENGLISH. There are tMo periods in British Architecture : 1. the Cyclopean, before thearriva
. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . ch fromLysonss Enrir. I. 348, § Merton Chancel. No. 10 is from the Tower of Durham Cathedral, taken fromthe plate in Hutchinsons Durham,\i. 227. No. 13 is an arch of the timeofEdw. III. taken from LysonssGloucestershire Etchings. No. is from a building of the date of Henry VI. No. 17 is anarch No. \%is a horse-shoe arch, from Grose and Canterbury.* ARCHITECTURE OF THE BRITONS, ANGLO-SAXONS, NORMANS,AND ENGLISH. There are tMo periods in British Architecture : 1. the Cyclopean, before thearrival of the Romans, of which hereafter j 2. that after the civiHzation byAgricola. * From 1065 to 1189, the Norman style represented by fig. 1. prevailed a little more than 124 years ;no remains really known to be more than a few years before the Conquest,From 1189 to 1307, the early English style (see fig. 7) 1307 to 1377, the Decorated English (see figs. 10, II.)rrom 1377 to 1546, the Decorated English (see fig. 17.) ARCHITECTURE OF THE BRITONS, ANGLO SAXONS, ^0 ). HOUSES OF THE BRITOXS. Diodorus Siculus speaks of thehouses of the Britons as built of wood,the walls made of stakes and wattling,like hurdles, and thatched with eitherreeds or straw. [Wattled chimniesstill occur in Wales.] Afterwards thedwellings were improved. Some setup strong stakes in the banks of earth,as well as large stones rudely laid oneach other without mortar.^ Strabosays, that the fashion Avas round, witha high pointed covering at top ; ^ andCaesar, that they resembled the Gaul-ish houses, and were only lighted bythe door. That this was perfectly cor-rect appears from the representationsof them on the Anton ine column,^where they are either cylinders, with anarched lofty entrance, single or double,or exact fac-similes of great tea-canis-ters in grocers shops; the oritice,where the lid shuts, being, accordingto Henry,^ for emission of use of straw ropes as in the abovespecimen, i
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