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| Image title: | Tolmen St. Mary’s Scilly. From the Druidical Antiquities Plate. |
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| Source: | Grose, Francis: “The Antiquities of England and Wales” (1783) |
| Place shown: | St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, England |
| Keywords: | druids, ruins, megaliths, greyscale |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested |
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This Tolmen Stone on St Mary’s, the largest of the the Isles of Scilly, was destroyed in 1869 by explosives, so that the granite underneath it could be quarried. An account of the unfortunate incident, which incident is said to have inspired the creation of the Ancient Monuments Act and the formation the following year of The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. This is one item from a full-page plate, Druidical Antiquities |
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| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/j/pages/00p135-Druidical-Antiquities-07/ |
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