Crossword-Solution: CASTRUM 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Thus I possess a dog's skull from the Roman colony of the neighbouring Heddersheim, 'Castrum Hadrianum', which is in no way distinguishable from the fossil bones from the Frankish caves; it presents the same colour, and adheres to the tongue just as they do; so that this character also, which, at a former meeting of German naturalists at Bonn, gave rise to amusing scenes between Buckland and Schmerling, is no longer of any value.

The Pictish maidens of the blood-royal were kept in Edinburgh Castle, thence called Castrum Puellarum." "A childish legend," said Oldbuck, "invented to give consequence to trumpery womankind.

But it may confound the rash adopters of the more obvious etymological derivations, to learn that the couch-grass or dog-grass, or, to speak scientifically, the Triticum repens of Linnaeus, does not grow within a quarter of a mile of this castrum or hill-fort, whose ramparts are uniformly clothed with short verdant turf; and that we must seek a bog or palus at a still greater distance, the nearest being that of Gird-the-mear, a full half-mile distant.

The Pictish maidens of the blood-royal were kept in Edinburgh Castle, thence called Castrum Puellarum.” “A childish legend,” said Oldbuck, “invented to give consequence to trumpery womankind.

Captaque sunt ibi vel occisa quatuor millia plebanorum, fratre Regis de Poleyn inter cćteros ibi perempto, qui aduersarius nostri fuit Obsessumque fuit castrum dictć Ciuitatis per quinque hebdomadas: Sed propter infirmitates, quibus vexabatur exercitus magistri de Pruys & de Lifland noluerunt diutiůs expectare.