Essays on archaeological subjects, and on various questions connected with the history of art, science, and literature in the Middle Ages (1861)
Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877 · London, Smith · leaf 167
e step by stej^ at truth. Iwill mention one other, and a very remarkable in-stance of the errors which are apt to arise from care-less observation, and ofthe necessity of exten-sive comparison. Onthe Continent, as inEngland, Teutonicgraves had from timeto time been accident-ally opened, and… … 154 ON ANGLO-SAXON ANTIQUITIES : Roman station in the Rhenish provinces, in a bookon the antiquities of that site published in 1839,engraved a skull with the brow encircled by a bronzecrown, which had been found in a grave with arti-cles of undoubted Teutonic character. There wassomething so…
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