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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 37.—Kit’s Coty House.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Sheep graze by the neolithic burial tomb while two shepherds wait. “The high road from Rochester to Maidstone presents several of those rich and varied prospects which so often in England compensate t [...] Keywords: druids, megaliths, tombs, people, sheep, animals, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Maidstone; Kent; England Added: 2005-10-01 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1303x891, 1737x1188, 292x200, 733x501, 977x668 | 39.—Trevethy StoneOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Trevethy Stone, also known as Trethevy Quoit, is a Domen or Cromlech near Liskeard in Cornwall. The Modern Antiquarian has some photographs. “At Plas Newydd, in the Isle of Anglesey, are two cromlechs [...] Keywords: druids, tombs, ruins, megaliths, greyscale Places shown: Liskeard; Cornwall; England Added: 2005-11-10 + S K L R N |
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| 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 40.—Cromlech at Plas Newydd, AngleseyOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) See also Grose’s Antiquities for an older engraving of this neolithic burial tomb. “The Isle of Anglesey, anciently called Mona, was the great stronghold of Druidism, whilst the Romans had still a dis [...] Keywords: druids, tombs, ruins, megaliths, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Plas Newydd; Anglesey; Wales Added: 2005-11-11 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 41.—Constantine Tolman, CornwallOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) 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, greyscale Places shown: Constantine; Cornwall; England Added: 2005-12-04 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1065x1132, 1421x1509, 188x200, 478x484, 799x849 | 42.—Wayland Smith’s CaveOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) In the neighbourhood of Lambourn, in Berkshire, are many barrows, and amongst them is found the cromlech called Wayland Smith. The tradition which Scott has so admirably used in his ‘Kenilworth’ that [...] Keywords: people, caves, druids, megaliths, tombs, greyscale Places shown: Wayland’s Smithy Long Barrow; Lambourn; Berkshire; England Added: 2005-12-09 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200 | 43.—Harold’s Stones, Trelech, MonmouthshireOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “It is stated by Rowland, the author of ‘Mona Antiqua,’ that wherever there are heaps of stones of great apparent antiquity, stone pillars are also found near them. This is probably too strong an asse [...] Keywords: animals, cattle, megaliths, ruins, tombs, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Telech; Monmouthshire; Wales Added: 2006-04-26 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 44.—hare Stone, CornwallOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “In the parish of Sancred, in Cornwall, is a remarkable stone called the Hare Stone (hare or hoar meaning literally border or boundary), with a heap of stones lying around it (Fig. 44). It is held tha [...] Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Harestone; Stanmore; Cornwall; England Added: 2006-07-07 + S K L R N |
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1296x923, 1728x1231, 281x200, 972x693 | 46.—Kilmarth Rocks, as seen from the South East.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “But there are some remains which have the appearance of works of art, which are, probably, nothing but irregular products of nature,—masses of stone thrown on a plane surface by some great convulsion [...] Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, greyscale Places shown: Scotland Added: 2006-07-28 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 47.—The Cheesewring, as seen from the North-west.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “But there are some remains which have the appearance of works of art, which are, probably, nothing but irregular products of nature,—masses of stone thrown on a plane surface by some great convulsion [...] Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Bodmin Moor; Cornwall; England Added: 2006-07-28 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 48.—Hugh Lloyd’s PulpitOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “The group of stones at Festiniog in Merionethshire, called Hugh Lloyd’s pulpit (Fig. 48), is also a natural production.” (p. 18) Note: the spellings ffestiniog and Festiniog are both used. Keywords: megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Festiniog; Merionethshire; Wales Added: 2006-08-07 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | 49.—Huts in a Cingalese Village.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The Cingalese people are the natives of Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka. “Of the domestic buildings of the early Britons there are no remains, if we except some circular stone foundations, which may have [...] Keywords: people, forests, buildings, trees, views, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Sri Lanka Added: 2005-08-30 + S K L |
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1216x1546, 153x200, 551x719, 684x869, 735x959, 980x1279 | 50.—Gaulish Huts.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “In the neighbourhood of Llandaff were, in King’s time, several modern pig-sties, of a peculiar construction; and he held that the form of these was derived from the dwellings of the ancient Britons. [...] Keywords: people, druids, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2005-09-19 + S K L |
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