Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe Quotes

“What is now a peepshow was in past ages a habitation and a home.”
― Sabine Baring-Gould, Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe

“Here a little shepherdess during the stormy times, when the Routiers ravaged the country, had her refuge while she watched her flock of goats, and here made her doll's house.”
― Sabine Baring-Gould, Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe

“In the face of one of the cliffs is the grotto of Blandas, that has been occupied since remote ages. A methodical exploration has revealed a spearhead of silex, a bronze axe, bone bracelets, a coin of the Hundred Years' War, and lastly a little pin- cushion of cloth in the shape of a heart, ornamented with metal crosses, the relic of some refugee in the Reign of Terror, hiding to escape the guillotine.”
― Sabine Baring-Gould, Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe

“In one of these Lartet and Christy began to sink a pit, beside the owner's bed, and the work was carried on to conclusion by the late Dr. Massenat. The well was driven down through successive stages of Man; deposits from the sous dropped and trampled into the earth floor by the children of the cottagers till the virgin soil was reached; and there, lying on his side, with his hands to his head for protection, and with a block of fallen rock crushing his thigh, lay the first prehistoric occupant of this shelter.”
― Sabine Baring-Gould, Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe