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XI. A Letter from John Gage, Esq. F.R.S., Director, to Hudson Gurney, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, communicating the recent discovery of Roman sepulchral relics in one of the greater Barrows at Bartlow, in the parish of Ashdon, in Essex
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When I had the honour of laying before you in 1832 a Plan of the Barrows called the Bartlow Hills, in the parish of Ashdon, with an account of Roman sepulchral relics then lately discovered in the lesser Barrows, I informed you that the greater remained to be explored, and that I was not without expectation Lord Maynard on some future occasion would make further excavations on the spot. I have now the gratification of announcing to you the success which has attended a recent excavation made by his Lordship in the largest of these tumuli.
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page 301 note a The measurement is taken at the door of the gallery.
page 301 note b Chronicle of England by Joseph Strutt, London, 1777, vol. i. p. 333. Another engraving of the Bartlow Hills will be found in the Modern Universal British Traveller.
page 310 note a Museo Borbonico, vol. iv. tav. lvii.
page 311 note b Antichita de Ercolano, vol. viii. p. 321, tav. lxxii—xciii.
page 311 note c Receuil d'Antiquité, tom. ii. planche xci. tom. v. pl. civ.
page 311 note d Ibid. tom. vi. pl. lxxxv. p. 273.
page 311 note e Ceris pingere, ac picturam inurere quis primus excogitaverit, non constat. Quidam Aristidis inventum putant, postea consummatum a Praxitele. Sed aliquanto vetustiores encausticæ picturæ exstitere, ut Polygnoti et Nicanoris et Arcesilai Pariorum. Lysippus quoque Æginæ picturæ suæ inscripsit ενεκαυσεν, quod profecto non fecisset nisi encaustica inventa. Pamphilus quoque Appellis præceptor non pinxisse tantum encausta, sed etiam docuisse traditur. Pausian Sicyonium primum in hoc genere nobilem. Plin. lib. xxxv. s. 39 & 40, edit. Harduin 702—3.
Encausto pingendi duo fuisse antiquitûs genera constat, cera, et in ebore, cestro, id est, viriculo, donec classes pingi cœpere. Hoc tertium accessit, resolutis igni ceris penicillo utendi, quæ pictura in navibus nec sole, nec sale, ventisque corrumpitur. Ibid. s. 41, p. 709.
Agrippa certe in Thermis, quas Romæ fecit, figlinum opus encausto pinxit. Ibid. lib. xxxvi. s. 64, p. 757.
page 311 note f Mundus subterraneus, lib. xii. 474.
page 312 note g Buonarotti, Osservazione Istoriche sopra alcuni medaglioni antiche, xvii.
page 312 note h Ibid.
page 312 note i Dell' origine dei nielli, p. 9.
page 312 note k Nu. K. 26.
page 312 note l Nu. K. 89.
page 313 note m Ταυτα ϕασι τα χρωματα τους εν Ωκϵανω βαρβαρους ϵγχϵιν τω χαλκω διαπυρω τα δε συνιστασθαι, και λιθουσθαι και σωϨϵιν α ϵγραϕη. Iconum, lib. i. Im. xxviii.
page 313 note n Album (plumbum) incoquitur æreis operibus Galliarum invento, ita ut vix discerni possit ab argento, eaque incoctilia vocant. Deinde et argentum incoquere simili modo cœpere, equorum maxime ornamentis, jumentorum jugis in Alexia oppido. Plin. lib 34. s. xlviii. Ed. Hardouin, p. 669.
page 313 note o Douglas in his Nenia, pl. xx. gives the representation of a buckle composed of tin and brass, and of a speculum composed of the same material, and Count Caylus describes a vessel of this description found near Vienne, tom. v. 295.
page 313 note p Buonarotti states Philostratus to have lived under Heliogabalus; but according to Moreri, the author of the Icones lived under Severus, about A. D. 200. The Philostratus who lived under Heliogabalus, was grandson or nephew to the author.
page 313 note q P. 89.
page 313 note r Tav. xii. tom. iv.
page 314 note s Cole's MSS. vol. xxxi. fol. 91.
page 314 note t Pompeii, vol. ii. p. 270.
page 314 note u L'Antiquité expliquée, tom. iii. 107.
page 315 note x Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities, belonging to Henry Salt, Esq. No. 658.
page 315 note y Grævius, Thesaur. Antiquit. tom. vii. 2060, 2093, 2125.
page 315 note z Ibid.
page 315 note a Ibid. 2060. Suet, in Galba, vii 18.
page 315 note b Ibid. ix. 1293, et Lipsius ad annal. Taciti, lib. ii. c. 83.
page 315 note c Ibid. vii. 2125. Antichita di Ercolano, tom. ii. 129. Meursius, Panathenæa, c 23. Perizonius ad Ælian. Var. Hist. lib. xi. 1. not. 4.
page 316 note d Sat. iii. 240–1.
page 316 note e Fin. iv. 12.
page 316 note f Persa, Act. i. sc. 3, v. 44.
page 316 note g Grævius, Thes. Antiq. vol. iii. p. 457.
page 317 note h Recherches sur l'origine des Arts de la Grece, pl. vii. tom. ii.
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