Identifier: archaeologiacant00kent (find matches)
Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Kent (England) -- Antiquities
Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ngness to give up the Reculver relics for preserva-tion in a place accessible to the public at all times. We have now the pleasure of being able to reportthat these arrangements have been actually carried out,and that one of the capitals which was missing in thefragments found at Canterbury, has since been disco-vered by Mr. Sheppard, in a farmyard at Reculver, andis re-erected with the rest, near the Baptistery, at thenorth side of the Cathedral, as represented in the ac-companying Plate. If any doubt could have been feltas to the identity of the columns at Canterbury withthose which formerly stood in Reculver Church, thissecond discovery is decisive of the question. There are some interesting details in the columnswhich are not in Mr. Gaudys drawing. We hope tofurnish exact particulars of them in a future volume.Altogether, they seem to be of grander proportions, andeven more fully to warrant their appropriation, if notactually to the Roman epoch, to a period bordering closeupon it.
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COLUMNS FROM THE ANCIENT CHURCH OFRECULVER. 137 THE LATE EEV. THOMAS STEEATFEILD,OF CHAET^S EDGE. To every student of Kent history, there is magic in thename of Thomas Streatfeild. For nearly half a century, with the most enthusiasticardour, he devoted all the energies of his life to theaccumulation of materials for a perfect history of hisnative county. Gifted with talents peculiarly adapted to the under-taking, he brought to it a marvellous acuteness in re-search, a matchless skill and readiness in seizing on thesalient points of any ancient document placed beforehim, and in catching up at once all those valuabletouches of personal character which ever and anon maybe elicited from private journals and letters. His, too,was a skill rarely equalled in connecting together thedifferent bearings of these disjecta memhra^ and weavingthem into a finished and authentic history. In heraldiclore he had hardly a rival. His learning and richly-stored memory were always ready at the moment ofnee

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