The south transept contains a tablet in memory of William Cunnington (1810), to whose researches theantiquaries of Wiltshire owe a great deal of their information.
The Early English church has an old font sculptured with the heads of what may be saints, a possible relic of Saxon times; some antiquaries have declared the work to be British of the later days of the Roman occupation.
Antiquaries are also interested in some ancient stones built into the old Norman doorway near the pulpit.
Between Gilts and Lodge is one; below it are a number of parallel and other earthworks, suggesting to the mind of some antiquaries the idea of its having been a maze; a dilemma in which antiquarians are often found.
Certain earthworks, he says, have been supposed by some antiquaries to be a maze; a dilemma in which antiquarians are sometimes found.
This instrument is supposed by the Danish antiquaries to have been used for removing by skilful blows the edges of flint knives, the fingers and thumb being placed in the two opposite depressions during the operation.
An excellent account of these researches of Danish naturalists and antiquaries has been drawn up by an able Swiss geologist, M.
One or two wrecked Spanish vessels, and arms of the same period, have rewarded the antiquaries who had been watching the draining operations in the hope of a richer harvest, and who were not a little disappointed at the result.
The point sought to be determined was the exact amount of Nile mud which had accumulated there since the time when that statue is supposed by some antiquaries to have been erected.
The data and facts which Scottish antiquaries require to seek out and accumulate for the future furtherance of Scottish Archæology, lie in many a different direction, waiting and hiding for our search after them.
The Welsh antiquaries have obtained from the Government offices in London various important documents of this description referring to Wales.
While engaged in the preparation of his original paper for the Society of Antiquaries on the Sculpturing of Cups and Rings, he wished to ascertain all the localities and conditions of their occurrence.
Why should the antiquaries of Scotland not imitate them in this respect?
See also Smellie's Account of the Institution and Progress of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1782), p.
The antiquaries of England and Ireland are much more fortunate in this respect than we are; for they possess a greater abundance of early documents than we can boast of.
This, however, is wholly the work of Elizabethan or subsequent antiquaries and deserves no credence.
Mr. Drake, whose name is closely associated with our Indian history, was one of the foremost of American antiquaries for many years.
Mr. Somerby, a native of Massachusetts, who died in London in 1872, did much during a long sojourn in England to further the interests of American antiquaries and genealogists.
They are the constant resource of antiquaries and historians, few of whom, however, but regret the too arbitrary arrangement given to them by that painstaking scholar.
This, then, is known as a logan, or rocking stone, which antiquaries of old pronounced to have been employed by the Druids as oracles, or for purpose of divination.
When written in 1832 antiquaries knew no better; they talked and wrote nonsense on such subjects.
Antiquaries are at issue as to what Roman town stood in this important position.
At the Society of Antiquaries the collection will be accessible to all literary inquirers, and no doubt the Society will publish a proper catalogue, which is already in preparation by Mr. Lemon.
The work that is now going on at the Society of Antiquaries in reference to the collection of royal proclamations in their library, is one in which not merely the Fellows of that Society, but all historical students, are deeply interested.
The first reason was that East Anglian antiquaries have long cherished the tradition that Chaucer was born in Norfolk.
The antiquaries of to-day question the Icenhilde Way so far east as this, laugh at the philology which would make Ickleton evidence of its existence, and make nothing of the authority of the learned Dr.
At Kentford, according to the Ordnance map and the tradition of the antiquaries of yesterday, we crossed the Icknield or Icenhilde Way.
At one period antiquaries of repute placed a Roman "camp" here, calling some of the earthworks Roman.
Here, according to the antiquaries of yesterday, Icenhilde Way and Erming Street crossed one another.
Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, xxi.
Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, xxii.
Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, xxv.
Some leading antiquaries of the eighteenth, and of the early part of this century, thought that the bridge entrance at the top was at first the only one and that the structure with its massive walls formed the cathedral treasury.
The author of this paper, which was read to the Society of Antiquaries only seven years after the restoration, seems to have been unaware of any thing of this sort having been attempted.
His words are: "Excepting that he lived and wrote, none of those industrious antiquaries have pointed out any particulars respecting Rowland[s].
Villains and local antiquaries will, therefore, use all their parliamentary influence to oppose and delay this bill, which is certainly hard on the parish archaeologist.
Genealogists and Antiquaries will find much new and curious matter in this work.
The Egyptian Typhons had their exact representations in ancient Greece in a figure of frequent occurrence, to which antiquaries have, I know not why, given the name of Gorgon.
Curious particulars on this subject are given in an interesting paper entitled "Some observations on Judicial Duels as practised in Germany," published in the twenty-ninth volume of the Archaeologia of the Society of Antiquaries (p.
Mr. Fairholt; it represents a party of antiquaries engaged in important excavations.
Gowland, who communicated the results of his researches to the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1899.
Society of Antiquaries of London, to undertake the raising of the great leaning stone in the interior of the circle.
Antiquaries find favour in the North, for The Times reports that the general yearly meeting of this Society was held on the 25th of February at the Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, his Majesty the King of Denmark in the chair.
It has not been unusual among antiquaries of a certain class to cite the following Latin hexameter:-- "Ad viscum Druidae!
In 1834 Mr. Kempe exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries a carved oak figure of Sir John Falstaff, in the costume of the sixteenth century.
By some antiquaries it has been suggested that the church was so called from being beneath or nigh to the wool staple.
In such castle rooms as antiquaries now visit, the Saxon earls and eldermen quaffed their ale, and drank "wassail" to King Egbert or Ethelwolf.
Jeremiah Mills, who died in 1784, and had been President of the Society of Antiquaries many years.
It is generally thought by antiquaries that a temple dedicated to Concord once stood here.
Our sketch of City pageants has already shown that two hundred years ago giants named Corineus and Gogmagog (which ought to have put our antiquaries earlier on the right scent) formed part of the procession.
Peterborough Cartulary belonging to the Society ofAntiquaries (MS.
This is held by antiquaries to be one of the best of the feudal fortresses in Sussex.
Lancaster is one of the many Roman settlements about whose name antiquaries are entitled to contend.
What may have been the purpose of these ancient fortifications is a question which the antiquaries have so far failed to answer in any way that is final and conclusive.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol.
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol.
This fort was visited in 1902 by the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, when a very interesting paper, written by Miss Jane Clark of Kilrea, was read.
Who Coventina may have been, the antiquaries inquire in vain.
Careless antiquaries call it the Watling Street, which, however, we left behind us at Greta Bridge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antiquaries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
