It is as if someone had recreated the interior of a study belonging, perhaps, to some old stronghold.
Your man Cerdic said they were looking at an old stronghold on the crag.
It could be that trader ventured into some old stronghold and brought forth the remains of such weapons.
The old commercial strongholds are not growing, but they are holding their own.
"We were heading to the old stronghold, the old tower," he concluded.
Their old strongholds in the Northeast are now mostly held by Democrats.
There wasn't a lot left of the old stronghold now.
The Communist insurgency is still very active, coming closer to the cities though abating somewhat in its old strongholds.
It is a very old stronghold (first mentioned in 1244) which has been converted into a castle.
The old stronghold has repeatedly been rebuilt since the early Middle Ages.