Author: Society of Antiquaries of London
Title: ARCHAEOLOGIA or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to ANTIQUITY, Volume 94 (Second Series Vol.44)
Description: Oxford, Charles Batey 1951 Plates (36, b&w photoplates). . Quarto 293 x 235mm, original panelled red cloth (hardback) gilt title to spine; viii +219pp. A clean, tight & bright copy (marginal tear & some wrinkling of page 196). Articles include Castle Rushen, Isle of Man; Aeolipiles as Fire-blowers (metal or earthen-ware vessels constructed to display "pyrotechnic" effects when heated, as weapons to frighten or to amuse); "Pictor in Carmine" mythical beasts, chimeras, acephali, etc. in art; Cult of St.Oswald in Northern Italy etc.

Keywords: archaeology history English pre-history


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