West Country, Cornwall and Wales
Reference code
CUR/09
Title
West Country, Cornwall and Wales
Date
1925 to 1929
Level of description
item
Extent and format
One notebook.
Octavo.
Red cover.
Octavo.
Red cover.
Scope and content
Notebook pages numbered with typed Index at back.
Handwritten notes in pen and black ink.
Includes:
* on p. 6, list of names of museum curators in southern and eastern England (Dorchester, Southampton, Romsey, Colchester, Wisbeach).
* information on churchyards in Wales – notes and diagrams.
* information on stone circles in e.g. Carmarthenshire, Brecon.
* sketches of fonts and churchyards
* notes and sketches of two Curwen family memorials.
Sites located in Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Yorkshire (Roman roads and camps) and Wales. Artefacts from the Pitt Rivers Museum, Reading Museum and Devizes Museum also sketched, with notes.
Handwritten notes in pen and black ink.
Includes:
* on p. 6, list of names of museum curators in southern and eastern England (Dorchester, Southampton, Romsey, Colchester, Wisbeach).
* information on churchyards in Wales – notes and diagrams.
* information on stone circles in e.g. Carmarthenshire, Brecon.
* sketches of fonts and churchyards
* notes and sketches of two Curwen family memorials.
Sites located in Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Yorkshire (Roman roads and camps) and Wales. Artefacts from the Pitt Rivers Museum, Reading Museum and Devizes Museum also sketched, with notes.
Creator
Curwen, Eliot (1865-1950), surgeon, traveller, antiquary