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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 210

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urch of St. Albans built early in the eleventhcentury with the Koman materials which had beencollected from the laborious and continued excava-tions of many years, by abbots Ealdred and Eadmar,among the ruins of the ancient city of Yerulamium,described in a paper in the former volume of… … Fig. 4, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire. * It has been observed, I think by Rickman, that the greatquantity of tiles observed in the old parts of St. Albans churchrenders it probable that they were not taken from older Romanbuildings, but made for the occasion. I think, however, thatthis assumption…

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