I. A Letter from John Gage, Esq. F.R.S., Director, to Hudson Gurney, Esq. F.R.S. V.P. &amp;c. containing an account of further discoveries of Roman sepulchral relics at the Bartlow Hills

John Gage

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I. A Letter from John Gage, Esq. F.R.S., Director, to Hudson Gurney, Esq. F.R.S. V.P. &c. containing an account of further discoveries of Roman sepulchral relics at the Bartlow Hills

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Lord Maynard having directed a further excavation to be made at the Bartlow hills, a gallery was commenced early in April last on the north side of the south barrow. This hill, according to the plan, is about thirty-five feet high, the diameter having been computed at ninety feet, but it exceeds a hundred. The gallery was constructed in the same manner as that opened in 1835 in the largest barrow, and had reached the centre of the hill on the 16th April, upon which day I inspected it in company with Lord Braybrooke and the Honourable Captain Percy. It extended fifty-two feet, and we observed that the tumulus was formed, like the largest barrow, of earth and chalk, in horizontal strata. Our arrival took place shortly after the workmen had broken in upon a hollow, where we gladly anticipated the finding a sepulchral deposit, appearances heing much the same as those observed on first opening the cavity in the centre of the other barrow.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , 1839 , pp. 1 - 6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S026134090000031X [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1839

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^{page 1 note a} Archæologia, vol. XXVI. p. 300.

^{page 2 note b} Vide similar vessels, Archæolog. XXV. XXVI. plates ii. xxxii, fig. 8, 1.

^{page 2 note c} Ibid. XXV. plate ii. fig. 2. XXVI, plate xxxii. fig. 1.

^{page 2 note d} Ibid.

^{page 3 note e} Archæologia, vol. XXV. plate xxxiii. fig. 10.

^{page 3 note f} Vide a nearly similar vessel, Archæologia, vol. XXVI. plate xxxii. fig. 4.

^{page 3 note g} Ibid. vol. XXV. plate ii. fig. 2.

^{page 3 note h} Ibid, plate iii. fig. 8.

^{page 3 note i} The pitcher, fig. 3, plate ii. ibid, is of the same yellow pottery.

^{page 4 note k} Archæologia, vol. XXV. plate ii. fig. 4.

^{page 4 note l} Ibid. fig. 6, 7.

^{page 4 note m} Ibid. vol. III. p. 139.

^{page 4 note n} Montfaucon, Antiq. Expliquée, i. tom. 127, 128,130,132, Leon. Agostini Gemm. Roma, 1686, n. 12.

^{page 4 note o} Montfaucon, i. tom. 284, 286.

^{page 4 note p} Ἄρɛος Νɛοττος Aristophanis Aves. Archæolog. III. p. 139. Agostini Gemm. n. 14.

^{page 4 note q} Montfaucon, ii. torn. 159. v. tom. 22G. vide tom. i. 180, 368.

^{page 4 note r} Plato in Phædone.

^{page 4 note s} Grater, 125, 2.

^{page 4 note t} Archæologia, vol. IV. p. 414.

^{page 4 note u} Nenia Brit. 138.

^{page 5 note x} Nen. Brit. p. 21.

^{page 5 note y} Tit. Liv. lib. ix. cap. 40.

^{page 5 note z} Montfaucon, torn. iii. pl. 124, p. 206.

^{page 5 note a} Picture Etruscorum in Vasculis, &c. vol. i. tab. xxx. Romæ, MDCCLXV1I.

^{page 6 note a} Rei Agrariae Auctores, p. 296. AmsteL 1674.

^{page 6 note b} Vol. i. p. 184. note to these lines:

“ Fresh sprigs of green box-wood, not six months before,

Filled the funeral basin at Timothy's door.”

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I. A Letter from John Gage, Esq. F.R.S., Director, to Hudson Gurney, Esq. F.R.S. V.P. &c. containing an account of further discoveries of Roman sepulchral relics at the Bartlow Hills

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