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36.—Kit’s Coty House near Aylesford, Kent Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

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 Maids [...]

Keywords: tombs, druids, ruins, megaliths, greyscale

Places shown: Maidstone; Kent; England

Added: 2005-09-27

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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 [...]

Keywords: druids, megaliths, tombs, people, sheep, animals, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Maidstone; Kent; England

Added: 2005-10-01

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38.—King’s Coty House Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Another picture of King’s Coty’s House; compare Fig. 37. There is also a picture of this in Francis Grose’sAntiquities.“Antiquaries have puzzled themselves about the name of this Kentish monument. Ki [...]

Keywords: druids, tombs, ruins, megaliths, greyscale

Places shown: Maidstone; Kent; England

Added: 2005-10-02

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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 [...]

Keywords: druids, tombs, ruins, megaliths, greyscale

Places shown: Liskeard; Cornwall; England

Added: 2005-11-10

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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 [...]

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

Places shown: Plas Newydd; Anglesey; Wales

Added: 2005-11-11

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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 [...]

Keywords: animals, sheep, megaliths, ruins, tombs, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Constantine; Cornwall; England

Added: 2005-12-04

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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 [...]

Keywords: people, caves, druids, megaliths, tombs, greyscale

Places shown: Wayland’s Smithy Long Barrow; Lambourn; Berkshire; England

Added: 2005-12-09

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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 [...]

Keywords: animals, cattle, megaliths, ruins, tombs, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Telech; Monmouthshire; Wales

Added: 2006-04-26

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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 [...]

Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Harestone; Stanmore; Cornwall; England

Added: 2006-07-07

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45.—Coronation Chair Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The celebrated stone which now forms the seat of the coronation chair of the sovereigns of England is a flat stone, nearly square. It formerly stood in Argyleshire, according to Buchanan; who also sa [...]

Keywords: royalty, chairs, rocks, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster Abbey; Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-07-09

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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 [...]

Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, greyscale

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2006-07-28

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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 [...]

Keywords: pillars, megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Bodmin Moor; Cornwall; England

Added: 2006-07-28

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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.

Keywords: megaliths, ruins, rocks, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Festiniog; Merionethshire; Wales

Added: 2006-08-07

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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 [...]

Keywords: people, forests, buildings, trees, views, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Sri Lanka

Added: 2005-08-30

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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. [...]

Keywords: people, druids, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-09-19

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51.—Plan and Section of Chun Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Chûn Castle is in West Penwith, Cornwall; it was built about 2,500 years ago. Remains of tin smelting have been found there, strengthening the suggestions that tin mining was active in Cornwall in at [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, castles, greyscale

Places shown: Chun Castle; Morvah; Cornwall; England

Added: 2005-06-03

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52.—Plan of Chambers at Ballyhendon Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Camden has given a rude [crude] representation of two caverns near Tilbury in Essex, “spacious caverns in a chalky cliff, built very artificially of stone to the height of ten fathoms [18 metres, or [...]

Keywords: plans, maps, monuments, greyscale

Places shown: Fermoy; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-06-18

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53.—Plan of Chambers on a Farm twelve miles from Ballyhendon Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

see Fig. 52 for notes.

Keywords: plans, maps, monuments, druids, greyscale

Places shown: Fermoy; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-06-18

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54.—Ground Plan and Section of the Subterranean Chamber at Carrighhill. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I think the place mentioned is probablyCarrick, and in particular either the neolithic Carrick East Burial Chamber or Carrigadoon Hill, but I am not certain. At any rate the text makes clear that it i [...]

Keywords: plans, monuments, druids, greyscale

Places shown: Carrick-on-Suir; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-08-17

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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, [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Llandaff; Wales

Added: 2005-09-19

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