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XXIII.—Observations on the celebrated Monument at Ashbury, in the county of Berks, called “Wayland Smith's Cave:” by John Yonge Akerman, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Capt. W. H. Smyth, R.N. Director

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

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I beg to submit through you to the Society of Antiquaries, drawings, from actual admeasurement, by Mr. C. W. Edmonds, of that interesting monument of the Celtic period, popularly known as “Wayland Smith's Cave,” (PI. XVII.) situated at Ashbury, in the county of Berks.

At a period when Antiquarian researches are prosecuted with so much zeal and vigour, anything that may assist our knowledge of the manners and customs of the early races in Britain cannot but prove interesting. We are, it is to be hoped, no longer in danger of seeing the most curious remains of antiquity gradually perishing under the united assaults of ignorance and cupidity.

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