The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer; Vol. 4, July-Dec 1884 — John Shaqi
The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer; Vol. 4, July-Dec 1884Various
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The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer; Vol. 4, July-Dec 1884
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Archaeology -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Periodicals
CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.--_May 26_, annual meeting, Mr. J. W.
Clark, M.A., President, in the chair. The Council and other officers for
the next year were elected. The annual report announced that the
Society’s collections had been placed in the new Museum of Archæology,
that eight meetings and two excursions had taken place during the past
year, that forty-seven new members had been elected, and that the first
of a series of loan-exhibitions of University and College portraits
under the auspices of this Society was now on view in the Fitzwilliam
Museum. Professor Hughes, in speaking of the so-called _Via Devana_
running from the end of Wort’s Causeway towards Horseheath, pointed out
that there was little, if any, evidence of its Roman origin, and
insisted that it was rather an entrenchment, to be referred to the same
later age which has given us Offa’s Dyke in the west, and the Devil’s
Dyke, and as many other notable earthworks in East Anglia also. The
Roman roads in the neighbourhood of the Castle Hill, too, he remarked,
seemed to converge to Grantchester rather than to Cambridge, and the
Roman pottery found here indicated rubbish-heaps rather than the site of
a camp or permanent fortification; and from all available evidence he
drew the conclusion that the mound and all the earthworks about it are
of Norman origin. Mr. Browne exhibited outline rubbings of two stones
recently presented to the British Museum by Mr. A. W. Franks, acquired
some years ago from persons who described them as coming from the city:
also of the remarkable rune-bearing stone from St. Paul’s Churchyard, in
the Guildhall Library. Mr. Waldstein made some remarks descriptive of
two stones from the Via Appia at Rome, lately given to the Fitzwilliam
Museum, and also of a red jasper intaglio, from Smyrna, in the
possession of the Rev. S. S. Lewis.
Antiquarian News & Notes.
A STATUE of Martin Luther has been unveiled at Washington.
CHESTER CASTLE is no longer to be used as a prison for civil offences.
THE Curfew Tower, one of the oldest portions of Windsor Castle, is being
repaired.
“THE Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys,” in ten volumes, is
promised in _édition de luxe_ form by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.
A COMMEMORATIVE tablet is about to be placed at No. 46, Rue Richelieu,
Paris, the house at which Molière died.
CORRINGHAM CHURCH, which has been elaborately restored at a cost of
£10,000, has been re-opened by the Bishop of Lincoln.
THE Trustees of the British Museum have purchased an early impression of
Jacobi’s last engraved work, the “School of Athens,” by Raphael, in the
Vatican.
THE “Libraries of Boston,” about to be published by Messrs. Cupples,
Upham & Co., will treat of more than 100 collections, both public and
private.
MESSRS. TRUBNER & CO. have ready “Archæology in India,” with special
reference to the works of Babu Rajendralala Mitra, by Mr. James
Fergusson.
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