Category: Antiquarian
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Knitting and old pots
…Certain styles of pottery decoration and dress ornaments were subject to the whims of fashion, or had short-term or family significance. An example of such ephemeral decoration is the patterns still knitted into traditional fishermen’s sweaters. I have long been struck by the similarity between patterns on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century fisherman’s sweaters, particularly from the…
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English Channel formed from ancient flood
English channel carved by huge ancient flood A cataclysmic flood cleaved Britain from France hundreds of thousand years ago, in a violent act of nature that carved out the white cliffs of Dover and set the course of history for a new island. High-resolution sonar images of the English channel collected over more than 20…
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St Petroc’s well
The discovery of an ancient well on a Cornish estate has led to speculation that it is the legendary well of St Petroc. The discovery was made by amateur archaeologist Jonathan Clemes while searching for a secret tunnel in the grounds of Prideaux Place, an Elizabethan manor house at Padstow. Mr Clemes regularly works with…
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Ancient British cult of Totatis
in Lincolnshire: For many years metal detectorists have been finding gold, silver and bronze Roman finger rings that all bear an enigmatic inscription containing three letters, reading ‘ToT’, and the majority of these come from Lincolnshire. Roman finger rings are sometimes inscribed with the name of a god who the wearer was devoted to, such…
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Bury St. Edmunds
This weekend was a weekend away, staying in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, at The Chantry Hotel. We visited the Greene King brewery. Greene King Visitor Centre We have a Museum that traces the history of brewing in and around Bury St Edmunds from the earliest times, and the story of the Greene and King families who…
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Theft from archaeological site
THIEVES STEAL ROMAN RELICS FROM DIG SITE Thieves with metal detectors have stolen Roman artefacts from a major archeological excavation site.More than 30 holes have been dug in a field at Sudbrooke where experts and amateurs have been working for two years to uncover the remains of a 2,000 year-old Roman villa.Archeologists working on the…
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If you like reading other people’s diaries….
The Diary Research Website ….which is a guide to historical and literary sources, in the forms of Diaries and Journals, from all periods and parts of the world, which have been printed in English; its principal content is a list of published diaries taken from the second edition of An Annotated Bibliography of Diaries Printed…
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Rugby
…the market town in Warwichshire, not the game. We were there visiting family this weekend. Rugby is probably most famous for Rugby School, founded in 1567, where, William Webb Ellis is purported to have invented the game in 1823. The school is the setting for Tom Brown’s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes. The most recent television adaption…
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National Archaeology Week
National Archaeology Week Saturday 14th-Sunday 22nd July 2007 Advice for budding archaeologists Amateur archaeologists in Oxfordshire are being invited to have their historic finds identified by experts. Anyone who has made an archaeological discovery can bring it to Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock to have it identified and officially recorded. The event, on 21 July, is…
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Alcester Tau Cross-head
Relic on show in home county AN ANCIENT religious cross has been returned to Warwickshire for the first time since it was discovered in the county more than a century ago. The Alcester Tau Cross, which belongs to the British Museum, has gone on display at the Warwickshire Museum in Warwick. It was unearthed in…
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