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Much Wenlock Abbey.

A man stands smoking his pipe in the ruined arch of this ancient abbey. Sheep gaze on are much away at the grass growing in the ruins of the cloisters. The man is presumably a shepherd, although it’ [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, people, animals, sheep, cloisters, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Much Wenlock; Shropshire; England

Added: 2007-01-17

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Carlisle Castle, Cumberland

Keywords: castles, ruins, hills, clouds, sheep, trees, people

Places shown: Carlisle; Cumberland; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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Plate 46. Hay Church

Hay Church, Brecknockshire

Keywords: churches, trees, animals, sheep, people, christmas

Places shown: Hay; Brecknockshire; Wales

Added: 2006-06-30

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Plate 20. St. Dogmael’s Priory

St. Dogmael’s Prioty was founded by the Tironensians, a French order of monks similar to the Benedictines. St. Dogmael was a “Welsh monk of the house of Cunedda, the son of Ithel ab Ceredig ab Cunedda [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, trees, sheep, gravestones

Places shown: St Dogmaels; Pembrokeshire; Wales

Added: 2006-06-30

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Llantisilio Church

Llantisilio Church, Vale of Llangollen, Denbighshire Drawn by H. Gastineau; Engraved by H. Adlard. The modern spelling is Llantysilio. The church was founded some time before the 12th Century, with mu [...]

Keywords: views, trees, people, sheep, animals, birds, churches

Places shown: Llantysilio; Denbighshire; Wales

Added: 2006-06-30

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Aries

Aries comes under the entry for the 20th of March: “Aries, or the ram, as a zodiacal sign, is said to have been derived by the Greeks from the golden fleece brought from Colchis by Jason, about 1263 y [...]

Keywords: zodiac, astrology, months, aries, animals, sheep, march, april

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-07-05

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Frontispiece: Lâon, View From the Plain

The Cathedral of Lâon, or Laon, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon, was built in the 12th century. “Voillet-le-Duc, in his review of the cathedral of Lâon, says that it has a certain ring of democracy and [...]

Keywords: colour, cityscapes, views, cathedrals, sheep, hills, trees

Places shown: Lâon; Picardy; France

Added: 2006-06-29

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41.—Constantine Tolman, Cornwall

I believe this Tolman was destroyed in 1869, although I found no reference to it at the Constantine Village Web site. “There are remains of the more ancient times of Britain whose uses no antiquarian [...]

Keywords: animals, sheep, megaliths, ruins, tombs, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Constantine; Cornwall; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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17.—Sarum Plain

In the foreground a barefoot shepherd with crook and straw hat, probably a boy, accompanied by his sheep, who graze on grassy burial mounds perhaps of ancient kings. In the far background, over Salisu [...]

Keywords: bare feet, people, sheep, stonehenge, megaliths, druids, ruins, views, burial mounds

Places shown: Salisubury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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6.—Stonehenge

“The present [1845] appearance of the ruin [Stonehenge] is shown in Figs. 5 and 6.” (p. 3) “The description which we have thus given, brief as it is, may appear somewhat tedious; but it is necessary t [...]

Keywords: ruins, megaliths, people, sheep, temples, druids, stone circles

Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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425.—Interor of Newark Castle

The ruins we can still see today were built by Bishop Alexander (“the Magnificent”) of Lincoln in the first half of the twelfth century, although there was a castle here at least as early as 1089, alm [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, animals, sheep, people, trees, arches, entrances, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Newark; Nottinghamshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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126.—Amphitheatre at Dorchester.

From a Sketch taken from the south-west.

The amphitheatre is at Mambury Rings, a stone age site not far from Dorchester. The Modern Antiquarian has some photographs of the area.

Keywords: amphitheatres, people, horses, animals, cattle, sheep, roman remains, ruins, wallpaper, backgrounds, views

Places shown: Mambury Rings; Dorchester; Dorset; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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