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VI. An Account of some Antiquities found at Fulbourn in Cambridgeshire, in a Letter addressed to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary; by the Rev. E. D. Clarke, LL.D. Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge

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E. D. Clarke
E. D. Clarke
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The observations already transmitted to the Society of Antiquaries, respecting some Celtic remains discovered near Sawston, were hardly communicated to the Society when our attention was again called to similiar antiquities of much more elegant form, and very superior workmanship, that were found by a party of labourers in the service of Greaves Townley, Esq. of Fulbourn, as they were digging upon Fulbourn common. Mr. Townley had the kindness to send these men to me at Cambridge, with the curious reliques they had brought to light; and as he allowed me to make what use of them I pleased, I am enabled to lay before the Society such other remarks as appear to me to be worthy of notice; accompanied, as before, with a drawing, by Mr. Kerrich, of the things as they were found, remarkable for its fidelity and exactness of delineation.

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Archaeologia , Volume 19 , 1821 , pp. 56 - 61
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1821

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page 56 note a See Pl. IV. fig. 1, 2.

page 56 note b See the deficiency marked by dotted lines, Pl. IV. fig. 2.

page 56 note c See the sections, Pl. IV. fig. 3, 4.

page 57 note a See Pl. IV. fig. 5, also the sections in fig. 6 and 7, and the enlarged representations, showing the fluting at the point in fig. 8 and 9.

page 57 note b Pl. IV. fig. 10, 11.

page 57 note c Millin, Peintures de Vases, tom. ii. p. 25.

page 57 note d Mus. di Real. Acad. di Mantov. tom. v. p. 58. See also Millin, Galerie Mythologique, tom. ii. Planche cxvi. 428, &c. &c. Paris, 1811.

page 57 note e Εὑϱέθη δὲ θήκη τε μεγάλου σώματος, αἰχμή τε παϱακειμένη χαλκῆ, και ξίφος. Plut. In Vit. Thes. tom. i. p. 35. Lond. 1729.

page 58 note a Mr. Pott in a German letter to Von Justi printed in 1760, describes an alloy of copper and tin, as affording a gold-coloured metal called Tombac. See Lewis's Commerce of the Arts, p. 624, Lond. 1763.

page 58 note b Manuel de Chymie, p. 149.

page 58 note c See Watson's Chemical Essays, &c. &c.

page 58 note d See also the “Art of Distillation”, by French, book v. p. 164. “I suppose,” says this old writer “the copper condenseth the body of the tin, which before was very porous, which condensation rather addes then diminisheth the weight thereof.’

page 58 note e See Pl. IV. fig. 2.

page 59 note a See the Journal de Phys. tom. li. also Aikin's Chemical Dictionary, vol. ii. p. 422. Lond. 1807.

page 59 note b It was in all probability a Celt; the antiquities denominated Celts in this country having been originally axes; as may be proved with reference to the short axes of the Coast of Malabar, where the same instrument is still in use. A gentleman recently returned from India, upon seeing a parcel of Celts in Cambridge immediately recognized the Malabar axes.

page 60 note a Humboldt's New Spain. Jameson's Mineralogy, vol. iii. p. 102. Edin. 1816.

page 60 note b See a terra-cotta vase discovered at Athens, now in the possession of Mr. Burgon, late British Consul at Smyrna.

page 61 note a See Pl. IV. fig. 13.

page 61 note b See Pl. IV. fig. 12.

page 61 note c Virgilii Æneid, lib. v. 103.