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Lanyon Cromleh Cornwall. From the Druidical Antiquities plate.
The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)
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 monu [...]
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Bosiliack; Cornwall; England
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Cranborne Manor House: The Loggia
English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)
Located near Wimborne, Dorset, and now known for itsgardens. It was originally built at the start of the 13th Century, but the entrance shown here is much later, postdating the English Civil War.
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manors, entrances, arches, colour
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Cranborne; Wimborne; Dorset; England
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33.—Carnbré Castle
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
There are two places called Carn Brae in Cornwall; one is the site of a medieval chapel and the other a castle. I think that this is the castle, near Redruth.“But there are many remarkable groups of i [...]
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castles, ruins, rocks, hills, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale
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Carnbrea; Cornwall; England
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39.—Trevethy Stone
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
Trevethy Stone, also known as Trethevy Quoit, is a Domen or Cromlech near Liskeard in Cornwall.The Modern Antiquarianhas some photographs.“At Plas Newydd, in the Isle of Anglesey, are two cromlechs (F [...]
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druids, tombs, ruins, megaliths, greyscale
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Liskeard; Cornwall; England
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41.—Constantine Tolman, Cornwall
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
I believe this Tolman was destroyed in 1869, although I found no reference to it at theConstantine Village Web site.“There are remains of the more ancient times of Britain whose uses no antiquarian wr [...]
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animals, sheep, megaliths, ruins, tombs, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale
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Constantine; Cornwall; England
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44.—hare Stone, Cornwall
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
“In the parish of Sancred, in Cornwall, is a remarkable stone called the Hare Stone (hareorhoarmeaning literally border or boundary), with a heap of stones lying around it (Fig. 44). It is held that t [...]
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pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
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Harestone; Stanmore; Cornwall; England
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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 [...]
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pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
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Bodmin Moor; Cornwall; England
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126.—Amphitheatre at Dorchester.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
From a Sketch taken from the south-west.
The amphitheatre is at Mambury Rings, a stone age site not far from Dorchester.The Modern Antiquarianhas some photographs of the area.
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amphitheatres, people, horses, animals, cattle, sheep, roman remains, ruins, wallpaper, backgrounds, views, greyscale
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Mambury Rings; Dorchester; Dorset; England
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Cranbourne House, Dorset
The Mansions of England in the Olden Time (1906)
Cranborne Manor dates back to the start of the Thirteenth Century, but was rebuilt in the 1600s. It belongs to the Marquess of Salisbury, and is traditionaly occupied by the heir, who is given the tit [...]
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halls, manors, stately homes, mansions, entrances, steps, gothic archtecture, greyscale
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Cranborne; Dorset; England
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Farley Castle
Youth’s Instruction (1830)
“The venerable remains of Farley Castle, the renowned baronial residence of the Hungerfords, is situated about six miles south-east from bath, in the county of Somerset. It is supposed to derive its n [...]
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castles, towers, entrances, walls, animals, trees, ruins, spooky, greyscale
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Farley; Somerset; England
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Fowey: Entrance to the harbour.
Round The Coast (1895)
“FOWEY.—This has been described as a miniature Dartmouth, and is a small seaport with a picturesque harbour at the mouth of the Fowey. This little place is 280 miles from London. In the old days it sh [...]
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water, boats, ships, views, towns, townscapes, greyscale
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Fowey; Cornwall; England
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King Arthur’s Castle, Off Tintagel Head, Cornwall
In Unfamiliar England (1910)
“After we reached the hotel, the long twilight still gave time to contemplate the weird beauty of the surroundings and to explore the ruins of the castle so famed in song and story. We scrambled down [...]
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castles, ruins, hills, water, colour
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Tintagel; Cornwall; England
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Clovelly, From the Hobby Walk
Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878)
The viewer is looking down a steeply-descending path through a seaside village towards the sea. There are slate rooves and some laundry over a fence.I tried to follow Hobby Drive down the hill using [...]
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views, villages, water, hills, water, roofs, rooftops, boats, chimneys, roads, greyscale
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Clovelly; Devon; England
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