Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Wiltshire and the City of Salisbury: Communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Held at Salisbury, July, 1849 (Classic Reprint)
Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Wiltshire and the City of Salisbury: Communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Held at Salisbury, July, 1849 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Wiltshire and the City of Salisbury: Communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Held at Salisbury, July, 1849 It is well known that, although the barrows on our Downs early engaged the attention of the curious, it was not until what an old man may call our own times, that the effectual method of opening them was discovered. Stukeley rarely found the true deposit; but Mr. Cunnington and Sir Richard Hoare ...
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Excerpt from Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Wiltshire and the City of Salisbury: Communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Held at Salisbury, July, 1849 It is well known that, although the barrows on our Downs early engaged the attention of the curious, it was not until what an old man may call our own times, that the effectual method of opening them was discovered. Stukeley rarely found the true deposit; but Mr. Cunnington and Sir Richard Hoare ascertained that the primary deposit was on the native soil, and that a section made in the centre to the level of the adjoining ground met the real interment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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