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Antiquaries And Antiquities.
moneyers' names IIOAV exhibiting the Anglian period previous to Edmund ' s accession , and sometimes ranging Avith those of Ethelbert ancl Ethelred , sole monarchs . Next , Avhy the coins of EthelNveard should be East-Anglian only , and be placed by stvle and moneyers' names , betAveen those of Athelstan ancl those of Edmund . And lastlythe evidence thus obtained makes it
, perfectly intelligible why Ecgbeorht should protect the East-Anglian monarchy , Avhile he rendered tributary or absorbed the other kingdoms of the Heptarchy . But Ave must not confine ourselves to numismatic research . Day by clay the earth is yielding up her treasures , and adding to our means of studying archaeology . A feAV zealous antiquaries
have been for years Avatching all the excavations going on in London , and Avith the most successful results . Foremost among these Ave must rank Charles Roach Smith , a man to whom the student of English and Anglo-Roman antiquity owes a large debt of gratitude . Regardless of trouble and expense , he Avas
by the side of every digger , ancl , though opposed m the most pertinacious Avay by the underlings of the Corporation , he succeeded in getting together a most valuable , as well as highly interesting collection of antiquities relating . to the city of London . Nor Avas he content Avith this . He began to publish , in 1848 , the " Collectanea Antiqua , " of AA'hich tAvo A olumes are
before the public , and a third is half completed . In this Avork he has chronicled not a feAV important discoveries , ancl represented a large number of most interesting objects ; and here , too , are to be found more than one paper refused admission to the " ArchEeologite , " simply because to illustrate it properly would have required an outlay from Avhich Mr . Smith did not
personally shrink , though far from being a Avealthy man . These are the persons to whom antiquarian science is indebted—men who spare neither labour nor cost , and Avho , too often , Avhen they find their trouble ancl energy overlooked , and credit given to others for what they have discovered , take a disgust to the science , ancl retire in despair from the pursuit—Sic vos non vobis I From the last number of the " Collectanea" we shall take a
notice of a very interesting relic , not improbably one of the ship-trumpets of the Spanish armada . The instrument in question Avas washed ashore off Romney : it passed at once into the possession of Mr . II . B . Maekeson , of Hythe , Avho immediately placed it in the " hands of Mr . Smith , Avith permission to have it engraved . It affords an illustration of maritime customs in the
Middle Ages . The form of the trumpet is ancient , and bears a general resemblance to those on the shield of the Trumpingtons , A . D . 1289 , in Trumpington Church , Cambridgeshire . But we
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Antiquaries And Antiquities.
moneyers' names IIOAV exhibiting the Anglian period previous to Edmund ' s accession , and sometimes ranging Avith those of Ethelbert ancl Ethelred , sole monarchs . Next , Avhy the coins of EthelNveard should be East-Anglian only , and be placed by stvle and moneyers' names , betAveen those of Athelstan ancl those of Edmund . And lastlythe evidence thus obtained makes it
, perfectly intelligible why Ecgbeorht should protect the East-Anglian monarchy , Avhile he rendered tributary or absorbed the other kingdoms of the Heptarchy . But Ave must not confine ourselves to numismatic research . Day by clay the earth is yielding up her treasures , and adding to our means of studying archaeology . A feAV zealous antiquaries
have been for years Avatching all the excavations going on in London , and Avith the most successful results . Foremost among these Ave must rank Charles Roach Smith , a man to whom the student of English and Anglo-Roman antiquity owes a large debt of gratitude . Regardless of trouble and expense , he Avas
by the side of every digger , ancl , though opposed m the most pertinacious Avay by the underlings of the Corporation , he succeeded in getting together a most valuable , as well as highly interesting collection of antiquities relating . to the city of London . Nor Avas he content Avith this . He began to publish , in 1848 , the " Collectanea Antiqua , " of AA'hich tAvo A olumes are
before the public , and a third is half completed . In this Avork he has chronicled not a feAV important discoveries , ancl represented a large number of most interesting objects ; and here , too , are to be found more than one paper refused admission to the " ArchEeologite , " simply because to illustrate it properly would have required an outlay from Avhich Mr . Smith did not
personally shrink , though far from being a Avealthy man . These are the persons to whom antiquarian science is indebted—men who spare neither labour nor cost , and Avho , too often , Avhen they find their trouble ancl energy overlooked , and credit given to others for what they have discovered , take a disgust to the science , ancl retire in despair from the pursuit—Sic vos non vobis I From the last number of the " Collectanea" we shall take a
notice of a very interesting relic , not improbably one of the ship-trumpets of the Spanish armada . The instrument in question Avas washed ashore off Romney : it passed at once into the possession of Mr . II . B . Maekeson , of Hythe , Avho immediately placed it in the " hands of Mr . Smith , Avith permission to have it engraved . It affords an illustration of maritime customs in the
Middle Ages . The form of the trumpet is ancient , and bears a general resemblance to those on the shield of the Trumpingtons , A . D . 1289 , in Trumpington Church , Cambridgeshire . But we