Newspaper cutting from The Times
Reference code
SAL/01/02/77/02
Title
Newspaper cutting from The Times
Date
11 August 1893
Level of description
item
Scope and content
Regarding the find of a stone at the Silchester excavations bearing two lines of Ogam inscription. Find made by Mr W.H. St. John Hope and Mr Fox on behalf of the Society. The significance of the find was that it was the oldest one in existence at the time and the one that had been found the farthest east in England. Currently held in Reading Museum.
Proceedings 12 April 1894 p152 and 19 April 1894 p153 George E. Fox Esq and W H St John Hope, Esq gave an account (in two parts) of the Silchester excavations in 1893. Both papers printed in Archaeologia 54 pps 199-238 and 439-494. The first part includes an account of the stone by Mr John Rhys, Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford.
Proceedings 12 April 1894 p152 and 19 April 1894 p153 George E. Fox Esq and W H St John Hope, Esq gave an account (in two parts) of the Silchester excavations in 1893. Both papers printed in Archaeologia 54 pps 199-238 and 439-494. The first part includes an account of the stone by Mr John Rhys, Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford.
Creator
The Times (fd 1788)