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Three Carved Stones in the Collection of the Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

A. W. Clapham
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The three carved stones which are the subject of these notes have been in the possession of the Society for an indeterminate length of time. The late Sir William Hope appears to have known nothing of their provenance, which carries back the Society's possession of them beyond the year 1885 when he became Assistant Secretary. They were probably exhibited or were intended to be exhibited to the Society and never subsequently removed, though no record of such exhibition is to be found in our Minutes. This unfortunate omission deprives us of an exact knowledge of the place from which the stones came, but a scientific examination of the material of which they are made identifies it as Northamptonshire oolite or some very closely allied stone. This indicates the Peterborough district as the approximate area from which they came.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1931 , pp. 133 - 135
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1931

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References

page 134 note 1 Proc. Soc. Ant. xxvi, pp. 112–14.

page 134 note 2 Arch. Journ. iv, p. 57.

page 134 note 3 Arch. Journ. xxvii, p. 76.

page 134 note 4 Hants Field Club, iv, p. 171.

page 135 note 1 A stone with somewhat similar ornaments found at Peterborough is of interest as coming from the same district as the Society's stones. Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. xlv, p. 180.