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 | | The windows must have been mere openings in the walls or roof, for glass was not used for this purpose before the latter part of the 7th century. |
 | | To these we have to add buildings for the attendants, kitchen, bakehouse, &c., and farm buildings: There is little or no evidence for the use of two-storeyed houses in early times, though in the loth and s rth centuries they were common. |
 | | The whole group of buildings stood in an enclosure (tun) surrounded by a stockade (burg), which perhaps rested on an earthwork, though this is disputed. |
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