Minutes of meeting, 25 May 1775
Reference code
SAL/02/014/018
Title
Minutes of meeting, 25 May 1775
Date
25/5/1775
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Shrine from Hereford (account by Mr Gough) compared with the Croyland Shrine.
Rev. Robert Darley Waddilove communicates an explanation by Dom Miguel Casiri of an inscription of Prince Almahadi Obaidalla on a marble in Palermo, copied by Mr Brydon.
Fibulae of Silver, in the form of a crescent, discovered in the Orkneys. Also an account of some coins and other antiquities lately discovered there.
Druidical Temple at the Orkneys; said to be the completest except that at Stonehenge. The Lodd or Woden (its local name at Kirkwall) said by Bishop Popock to represent the Planets.
Rolling Press Printers’ Bill laid before the Society and ordered for payment.
A curious antique salt cellar of silver much in the form of a Chalice shown by the Arms to have been the property of the Berkeley family.
Rev. Robert Darley Waddilove communicates an explanation by Dom Miguel Casiri of an inscription of Prince Almahadi Obaidalla on a marble in Palermo, copied by Mr Brydon.
Fibulae of Silver, in the form of a crescent, discovered in the Orkneys. Also an account of some coins and other antiquities lately discovered there.
Druidical Temple at the Orkneys; said to be the completest except that at Stonehenge. The Lodd or Woden (its local name at Kirkwall) said by Bishop Popock to represent the Planets.
Rolling Press Printers’ Bill laid before the Society and ordered for payment.
A curious antique salt cellar of silver much in the form of a Chalice shown by the Arms to have been the property of the Berkeley family.
Creator
Society of Antiquaries of London
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