Items in or near Dorset (results page 2)

24.—Contents of Ancient British Barrows Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The plate also has the following text:“1, 2. Flint Arrow-Heads.3,4. Celts[Note: Webster (1913) givesCelt, n. LL. celts a chisel. (Archaeol.)A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli [...]

Keywords: weapons, druids, burial mounds, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-08-02

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25.—General View of Abury Restored. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Avebury: stone circles within stone circles!

“The general view (Fig. 25) is a restoration formed upon the plan (Fig. 26).”

The costumes of the three black-robedr ‘druids’ are presumably fanciful.

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

Places shown: Avebury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-08-13

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26.—Abury Plan and Section Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An 1840s plan of Avebury stone circle.“The plan exhibits this bank,e, with the ditchf: immediately within the ditch was a circle of stones, dotted on the plan. This circle is stated to have been compo [...]

Keywords: megaliths, druids, temples, ruins, plans, stone circles, greyscale

Places shown: Avebury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-08-13

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27.—Abury. Extended Plan. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A map covering a larger area than that of Fig. 26.“The general view (Fig. 25) is a restoration formed upon the plan (Fig. 26). Upon that plan there are two openings through the bank and ditch,aandb. T [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, druids, megaliths, temples, ruins, stone circles, greyscale

Places shown: Avebury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-08-29

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28.—Abury. Bird’s eye view, from the South. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The bird’s-eye view (Fig. 28), exhibits the restoration of Abury and its neighbourhood somewhat more clearly. 1 is the circumvallated bank, 2 and 3 the inner temples, 4 the river Kennet, 5 and 6 the [...]

Keywords: views, megaliths, temples, druids, ruins, stone circles, greyscale

Places shown: Avebury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-08-29

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31.—British Weapons of Bronze, in their earliest and improved state. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Various weapons (if such they be) dug up from burial mounds in the vicinity of Stonehenge, probably of bronze. See also Fig. 16.

Keywords: weapons, druids, greyscale

Places shown: Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-03-29

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32.—Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An engraving of Silbury Hill, near Avebury; a man leads a team of horses pulling a hay wain, on top of which sits a boy. A man and woman walk alongside. In the background lies the great hill, and in [...]

Keywords: people, carts, trees, hills, views, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper, stone circles, greyscale

Places shown: Silbury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-09-02

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Beech. The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

“The high part of the south-west consists of a vast hill of chalkk rising three hundred feet above the village, and is divided into a sheep-down, the high wood and a long hanging wood, called The Hang [...]

Keywords: trees, greyscale

Places shown: Selborne; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-11-08

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Wych Elm. The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

“In the court of Norton farmhouse, a manor farm to the north-west of the village [of Selborne], on the white malms, stood within these twentyyears a broad-leaved elm, or wych hazel,ulmus folio latissi [...]

Keywords: trees, greyscale

Places shown: Selborne; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-12-12

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Wilton House Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1870)

It was hard to do justice to the delicate colours of this 8-colour printed plate of Wilton House in Wiltshire.WILTON HOUSE,WILTON, WILTSHIRE.—EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY.Wilton Houseis an imposing [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, buildings, trees, water, colour

Places shown: Wilton; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2007-02-10

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104.—Plan of Porchester Castle, Hants. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

[...] the fact is certain that in several of the undoubted Roman castles, or camps, is a small building of cruciform shape, placed not far from the centre of the enclosure. At Porchester (Fig. 104) an [...]

Keywords: plans, castles, roman remains, ruins, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Porchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2011-06-05

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124.—Silchester. The North Wall. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The striking characteristic of Silchester is the ruined wall, with the flourising trees upon it and around it, and the old trees that have grown up around centuries ago, and are now perishing with it. [...]

Keywords: ruins, roman remains, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Silchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2003-11-09

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125.—Silchester. Plan of City. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

a, The Western Gate, near to which the Road now leads to the church nearb, the Eastern Gate;c, the South Gate;d, the North Gate.

Silchester was a Romantown in England.

Keywords: plans, maps, roman remains, greyscale

Places shown: Silchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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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.

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

Places shown: Mambury Rings; Dorchester; Dorset; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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29.—Portchester Castle, in Hampshire. The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

DESCRIPTIONof PORTCHESTER-CASTLE, inHampshire.ThisCastle which is about five miles from Portsmouth, takes its appellation from a village so called in which it is situate, formerly a confiderable town [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, towers, battlements, bridges, people, greyscale

Places shown: Portchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2015-08-26

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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 [...]

Keywords: halls, manors, stately homes, mansions, entrances, steps, gothic archtecture, greyscale

Places shown: Cranborne; Dorset; England

Added: 2021-02-08

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311.—Avebury Manor, Wiltshire English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

Church, Stable and House

The church predates 1275 but the main part of the house probably dates from the 1560s. The south porch bears the date 1601, however.

Keywords: manors, churches, trees, sundials, creeper, windows, colour

Places shown: Avebury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2003-08-16

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312.—Avebury Manor, Wiltshire English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

The Ancient Cut Box Tree on the South Lawn

Keywords: manors, trees, entrances, creeper, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Avebury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2003-08-16

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Steep, Hampshire Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Walter Tyndale.An English house wth a steep tiled roof, probably originally thatched, and with stone mullioned windows. Topiary and careful landscaping give a well-kept [...]

Keywords: houses, cottages, roofs, gardens, chimneys, dormer windows, windows, topiary, colour

Places shown: Steep; Hampshire; England

Added: 2012-10-22

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Restoration of Old Cottage at Steep Petersfield Old English Country Cottages (1906)

STEEP, HAMPSHIRE.From a water-colour drawing byWalter Tyndale.The only district where stone-slated roofs were hipped was in the heart of the tile counties. Here there are a number, the builders merely [...]

Keywords: cottages, art, houses, roofs, chimneys, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Steep; Hampshire; England

Added: 2012-10-30

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