单词 | mile-fortlet |
释义 | > as lemmasmile-fortlet mile-fortlet n. Roman History any of a series of small fortifications erected along the Cumbrian coast at approximately one-mile intervals. ΚΠ 1929 R. G. Collingwood in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. 29 153 Future study of these sites [on the Cumberland coast]..should be devoted..to discriminating between small buildings resembling the turrets of the Wall [sc. Hadrian's Wall] and larger buildings resembling its milecastles, which I here call fortlets.] 1948 Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. 47 78 The coastal mile-fortlet at Cardurnock. 1990 Antiquaries Jrnl. 70 134/1 Presumably reflecting the much smaller scale of the map base used, only the mile fortlets are included for the Cumberland coast. < as lemmas |
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