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The arts in early England (1903)

Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932, Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956, Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980 · London, J. Murray · leaf 87

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he stone was anexcellent one for resisting the ravages of time. The writer iskindly informed by Mr S. F. Sainty of Hartlepool, who as ahydraulic engineer is famihar with the local geological forma-tions, that the magnesian limestone of the place has just thesame qualities as the material of the… … SPECIMENS FROM LINDISFARNE 67 British Museum. No. 7 is 9 in. high by yf hy 2 in. The backis dressed fairly smooth but is not finished for show. It isnot very well preserved and the name, in Hiberno-Saxoncharacters with a use of ligatures which occur also on Nos. 4and 5 but not on the other stones…

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