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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 th [...]
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druids, megaliths, tombs, people, sheep, animals, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale
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Maidstone; Kent; 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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40.—Cromlech at Plas Newydd, Anglesey
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
See alsoGrose’s Antiquitiesfor 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 distur [...]
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Plas Newydd; Anglesey; Wales
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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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42.—Wayland Smith’s Cave
Old 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 [...]
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people, caves, druids, megaliths, tombs, greyscale
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Wayland’s Smithy Long Barrow; Lambourn; Berkshire; England
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43.—Harold’s Stones, Trelech, Monmouthshire
Old 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 [...]
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animals, cattle, megaliths, ruins, tombs, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale
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Telech; Monmouthshire; Wales
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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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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 [...]
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pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, greyscale
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Scotland
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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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48.—Hugh Lloyd’s Pulpit
Old 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 spellingsffestiniogandFestiniogare both used.
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megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
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Festiniog; Merionethshire; Wales
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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 [...]
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people, forests, buildings, trees, views, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale
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Sri Lanka
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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. [...]
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55.—Welsh Pigsty.
Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)
“Of the domestic buildings of the early Britons there are no remains, if we except some circular stone foundations, which may have been those of houses. It is concluded, perhaps somewhat too hastily, [...]
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forests, trees, greyscale
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Llandaff; Wales
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