Identifier: wiltshirearchaeo2518godd (find matches)
Title: The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Goddard, Edward Hungerford, 1854- Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Proceedings
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: (Devizes, Eng. : The Society)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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l—as soonas the facts came to his knowledge called attention to them andexpressed a wish that the field should be properly examined and theremains uncovered. Time, however, pressed, for the field waswanted for ploughing again at once—so that whatever was to be donemust be done forthwith. Accordingly, on the 23d of October, theservices of three labourers having been secured, with the help of theVicar, Mr. Wall, and other volunteers, the surface soil was carefullyremoved, and the pavement A exposed to view. This measured15ft. in length and 7ft. 6in. in breadth, and seemed fairly perfectexcept at the southern end and the sides. It consisted of stripes ofred and white tesserae. The central stripe was white, 9in. in width,and formed of eight rows of tesserae, the red stripes on each side ofit were each 3ft. broad, while the white stripes bordering the sideswere apparently originally of the same width as the central stripe,though only four or five rows of tesserae now remain—the outer
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(Any Member whose name or address is incorrectly printed in this Listis requested to communicate with the Financial Secretary.) WILTSHIRE ^tjmologtal mtir jfefamtl pistarg jlimetg. NOVEMBER, 1890. Patron t The Most Honoubable The Mabquis op Lansdowne, President : Genebal Pitt-Rivebs, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A. Vice-Presidents : The Most Hon. the Marquis of Bath William Cunnington, Esq. Sir Gabriel Goldney, Bart. The Right Hon. Lord Heytesbury Sir Henry A. Hoare, Bart. Rev. Canon Jackson Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P. Sir John Neeld, Bart. The Right Hon. Earl Nelson Rev. H. A. Olivier Charles Penruddocke, Esq. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of SalisburyRev. A. C. SmithC. H. Talbot, Esq. Trustees : Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bart. The Most Hon. the Marquis of Bath William Cunnington, Esq. G. T. J. Sotheron Estcourt, Esq. G. P. Fuller, Esq., M.P. Sir Gabriel Goldney, Bart. The Most Hon. the Marquis of LansdowneSir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P.Sir John Neeld, Bart.The Right Hon. Earl NelsonCharles Penru

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