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XVIII.—On Basket-work Figures of Men represented on Sculptured Stones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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I beg to invite the attention of the Society of Antiquaries to the occurrence of human figures sculptured on stones at Checkley and Ilam, in Staffordshire, the bodies being represented as formed entirely of interlacing bands, and producing the effect of wickerwork images. As far as I know, attention has not hitherto been called to this remarkable and suggestive feature, which seems to throw us far back into the past, and reminds us of the earliest descriptions of the land of Britain.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1887

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page 287 note a Gough's, Camden, vol. ii. p. 49Google Scholar.

page 287 note b Ch. x. 63, 64.

page 293 note a A.D. 1859, pp. 63-80.