The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts (1834) (14595777749)

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Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts

Year: 1834 (1830s)

Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854

Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel

Publisher: London, Chidley

Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Roman pottery, certainvessels of glass and of bronze, a few coins, and theremains of two implements of iron. The vases of pottery, or terra-cotta, (baked earth,or clay) were much mutilated and shattered in thedisinterment, with the exception of a single beautifulspecimen, which, by the ignorant workmen, wasthrown aside upon a heap of gravel,—and even thiswas damaged by a spade being carelessly cast upon it, * Within the last fortnight, some new and important dis-coveries have been made near Sheftbrd,—of which we hope,shortly, to be enabled to give a full account, 344 THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. which chipped a piece out. This dish and another, ofwhich the diameter is ten inches, are all that were pre-served of the fruit of that days discovery. The latteris of an elegant, but not uncommon, form,—such as would be suited to the dairy purpose of a cream-bowlor cream-dish, and it has the makers name Offa-ger impressed in Roman capitals across the centreof the inner side.

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A brief account of this discovery was inserted inthe Times Newspaper, which excited some anti-quarian notice ; and, Mr. Inskip, a resident at Shef-ford, constantly visited the spot during all further ex-cavations. The next discovery consisted of a smallRoman urn, a jug, and an iron lamp, surrounded byeleven dishes; nearly the whole of which were dis-interred without the slightest injury, and are still in astate of excellent preservation. A considerable quan-tity of broken glass was also found. Some weeks afterward, the spot was again ex-cavated, and a fresh deposit of terra-cotta cups, orvases, was brought to light, these, had their makersnames, Calvinus, Maccius, &c. impressed acrossthe inner surfaces of their bottoms, from engravedstamps, such as were some years ago exhibited anddiscoursed of by Mr. Landseer, at the Royal Institu-tion ; * several of which may be seen in the BritishMuseum. A considerable quantity of the remains of glass urns, so much broken as not to be susceptib

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