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West Country, Cornwall and Wales

Reference code
CUR/08
Title
West Country, Cornwall and Wales
Date
1924 to 1925 with later additions
Level of description
item
Extent and format
One notebook.
Octavo.
Black cover.
Scope and content
Notebook pages numbered with typed Index at back.

Handwritten notes, mainly in pen and ink (black and blue with occasional red highlighting), with some notes in pencil.
Includes pen and ink sketches of artefacts, stone circles, stone rows, ditches and Roman roads, maps, plans and cross-sections of sites, many with measurements.

Sites located in Cornwall, Dorset, Devon (especially Dartmoor) and Wiltshire.

There are notes and pencil sketches of artefacts in the following museums: Blackmore, Devizes, Farnham, Glastonbury, Plymouth and Taunton.

There is a report of a conversation with someone who was involved with the excavations at Fernworthy/Postbridge by Robert Burnard and Sabine Baring Gould.

There are notes taken from works by other authorities and a bibliography for the notes made on Dartmoor.
Creator
Curwen, Eliot (1865-1950), surgeon, traveller, antiquary