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... stone instruments : they have loops at the back to suspend them round the neck , in their habitations , or in their temples . " Description of objects exhibited by Mr. Simons . - They are twelve in number , and weigh nearly twenty ...
... stone instruments : they have loops at the back to suspend them round the neck , in their habitations , or in their temples . " Description of objects exhibited by Mr. Simons . - They are twelve in number , and weigh nearly twenty ...
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... stone objects discovered in Picardy , and at Hoxne , in Suffolk , upon which so much had been said and written of late , by M. Boucher de Perthes , Mr. Evans , Mr. Prestwich , & c . Several good examples had been produced in the museum ...
... stone objects discovered in Picardy , and at Hoxne , in Suffolk , upon which so much had been said and written of late , by M. Boucher de Perthes , Mr. Evans , Mr. Prestwich , & c . Several good examples had been produced in the museum ...
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... stone which he had shewn on a former occasion , supposed to have been used by Lady Jane Grey during the short period that she had the title of Queen , were obviously fictitious , and of very recent date . Many fictitious seals of jet or ...
... stone which he had shewn on a former occasion , supposed to have been used by Lady Jane Grey during the short period that she had the title of Queen , were obviously fictitious , and of very recent date . Many fictitious seals of jet or ...
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... stone , two of adults , two of children . From the difference of the dress it ap- pears that one of the children is a male , the other a female ; the two adults are , no doubt , the husband and the wife men- tioned in the inscription ...
... stone , two of adults , two of children . From the difference of the dress it ap- pears that one of the children is a male , the other a female ; the two adults are , no doubt , the husband and the wife men- tioned in the inscription ...
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... stone for the letters necessary to form FLAVIANUS , which is not unlikely to have been the name . But the space before the term of life in the fourth line is so small that there is only room for a single name , and we must sup- pose an ...
... stone for the letters necessary to form FLAVIANUS , which is not unlikely to have been the name . But the space before the term of life in the fourth line is so small that there is only room for a single name , and we must sup- pose an ...
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