Items matching tombs

Widow Mourning

The book describes a train journey from Cairo to Kafr et Zayat station at Tantah. This illustration appears to depict a woman clad in black and wearing a shawl, citing in amidst the ruins of some anc [...]

Keywords: cities, ruins, people, graveyards, tombs

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2006-02-10

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Catacombs in Alexandria

“By far the most magnificent portion [of Alexandria] was the Bruchium (granery, or height), bathed by the waters of the Great Harbour, and adjoining the oldest part of the city, namely, the original f [...]

Keywords: death, interiors, caves, catacombs, tombs, spooky

Places shown: Alexandria; Egypt

Added: 2006-02-10

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Cromleh near Dundalk Ireland, from the Druidical Antiquities plate.

This is an engraving of Proleek Dolmen, part of a megalithic portal tomb, although this should not be taken to imply that there is a burial chamber. The capstone is almost four metres long and over t [...]

Keywords: druids, megaliths, ruins, tombs

Places shown: Dundalk; County Louth; Ireland

Added: 2006-01-11

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Cromleh near Plaisnewdd in Anglesea

The modern spelling of Plaisnewdd is Plas Newydd; this megalithic burial chamber is near the National Trust site at Bryn Celli Ddu in Anglesey (Ynys Mon). modern picture by hamish This is one item fro [...]

Keywords: druids, tombs, megaliths, ruins

Places shown: Plas Newydd; Anglesey; Wales

Added: 2006-01-11

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Kist-vain, from the Druidical Antiquities plate

This is an engraving of a kist-tomb.

Kist is an old name for chest or coffin, and vain used also to mean empty or pointless, as, in vain.

This is one item from a full-page plate, Druidical Antiquities

Keywords: ruins, druids, megaliths, tombs

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-11

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Lanyon Cromleh Cornwall. From the Druidical Antiquities plate.

This appears to be an engraving of a dolmen called Lanyon Quoit in Cornwall. The monument was actually destroyed in 1815 by a storm, and was rebuilt incorrectly. This engraving is of the original mon [...]

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

Places shown: Bosiliack; Cornwall; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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Dryburgh Abbey

The Tomb of Sir Walter ScottThe abbey is said to have been founded in 1150 by the White Friars. Edward II burned it in 1322, and Robert the Bruce partly restored it. Sir Walter Scott is buried in th [...]

Keywords: colour, tombs, arches, abbeys, trees, ruins

Places shown: Dryburgh; Melrose; Berwickshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-20

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The Beauchamp Chapel

Tombs of the founder and Robert Dudley, Earl of LeicesterThis tomb is (or was) in St. Mary’s Church, also known as Warwick High Church. George Morley writes (p.15) From the choir the silent mover in [...]

Keywords: colour, tombs, churches, windows

Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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Old Chained Bible

The Knight Hospitaller’s Tomb and Old Chained Bible at North Baddesley Church. The bible dates from 1620 and was donated to the church in 1702. The tomb is now in the chancel of the church. (From a [...]

Keywords: books, pictures of books, gravestones, tombs, interiors, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: North Baddesley; Hampshire; England

Added: 2003-09-17

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A Cathedral Crypt

Stone pillars support ancient arches; on the right lies an ornate carved tomb of some long-forgotten knight, shrouded in darkness and alone in death.

Keywords: tombs, cathedrals, interiors, arches, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-06-07

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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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36.—Kit’s Coty House near Aylesford, Kent

Kit’s Coty House is a neolithic chambered tomb. It is mentioned in Pepys’ diary, but has suffered damage since this plate was made. “We shall have presently to speak of the singular erection near Maid [...]

Keywords: tombs, druids, ruins, megaliths

Places shown: Maidstone; Kent; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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