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XVII.—Notes of Antiquarian Researches in the Summer and Autumn of 1854

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

John Yonge Akerman
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On the 30th June last, at the invitation of the Council of the Surrey Archæological Society, I assisted at the opening of a Barrow at Teddington, near Kingston-on-Thames, but north of the river, and therefore in the county of Middlesex.

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Archaeologia , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , 1855 , pp. 175 - 186
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1855

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page 177 note a This locality is given as “Weatherless Hall” on the Ordnance Map. It was formerly the property of Sir Brook Bridges, who exchanged it with Earl Cowper.

page 177 note b Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, vol. i. p. 3. These objects are engraved in “Remains of Pagan Saxondom,” plates x. and xi.

page 178 note a “And we enjoin that every priest zealously promote Christianity and totally extinguish every heathenism; and forbid well-worshippings (þil-þeoηðunδa) and the vain practices which are carried on with various spells, and with frith-splots and with elders (J on ellenum),” &c. Canons of Edgar, c. 16. Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, ed. B. Thorpe, 8vo. London, 1840. The predilection of our heathen forefathers for such objects is strikingly illustrated in the choice of the site of the cemetery of Little Wilbraham. Compare the ground-plan, here given, with that in “Saxon Obsequies,” a record of excavations by the Honourable R. C. Neville, 4to. London, 1854.

page 178 note b See a similar hasp in Nenia Britannica, plate viii. fig. 5. And another in Hoare's Ancient Wilts, vol. ii. p. xxxi. b. found with Anglo-Saxon remains at Woodyates.

page 178 note c See Archæologia, vol. XXXV. p. 267, note b.

page 180 * Nenia Britannica, p. 6. Pagan Saxondom, pl. xxxiii.

page 181 note a I have ventured to correct the orthography of this name, usually spelt Odstock, on the authority of Anglo-Saxon charters. (Cod. Dipl. 387.) Hoddestoc means the land-mark of Hod, a Saxon probably of note in this district, whose descendants are yet found among the Hoddings, a name still existing in yeoman families in the South of England.

page 182 note a The term Rowbarrow would seem to designate a tumulus or eminence which had once been topped with stones, presenting a rugged apex. Compare the epithets Ruganbeorh, Ruwanbeorh, Ruanberg, in the Codex Diplomaticus Ævi Saxonici, passim.

page 182 note b Woodbury appears to have been included in the grant of Cenwealh to the Church of Winchester. See the land limits of this grant in my account of the Harnham Cemetery, Archæologia, vol. XXXV.

page 185 note a A friend who has looked over these sheets is of opinion that “this Barrow is of the primæval period created for some purpose, sacrificial or commemorative, that we shall never rightly discover. You will remember,” he remarks, “that I opened three very large tumuli near Blackwater, Hants, composed of fine mould, without finding a trace of relics within. Monsieur Feret of Dieppe has often named to me as singular, that in his examination of ancient Gaulish barrows and habitations, he has found substructions composed of blocks of chalk, set together in a rude masonry without mortar.” “In fact,” he adds, “I saw the same thing myself in a barrow at Varangeville; masses of chalk and large flints, with the occasional presence of charcoal.”

page 185 note b Archæologia, vol. II. page 57.