Excavations in Cranborne Chase near Rushmore, on the borders of Dorset and Wilts / by Lieutenant-General Pitt Rivers - 4 vols.
1887, First Edition. London : [Harrison and Sons, Printers] Printed privately. Library copy. Author's presentation copies. Good set only in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Spine and boards detached in vol. 1. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. SIGNED by author. Item #397349
Date is suggested between 1887-98. Physical description: 4 volumes frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portrait, maps (some folded) plans, table (some folded) 32 cm. Contents: v. 1. Excavations in the Romano-British village on Woodcuts Common, and Romano-British antiquities in Rushmore Park. 1887.--v. 2. Excavations in Barrows near Rushmore; in Romano-British village, Rotherley; in Winkelbury Camp; in British Barrows and Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Winkelbury Hill. 1888.--v. 3. Excavations in Bokerly and Wansdyke, Dorset and Wilts ... with observations on the human remains by J.G. Garson, M.D. 1892.--v. 4. Excavations in South Lodge Camp, Rushmore Park ... Handley Hill and Handley Down ... Martin Down, Wilts, etc. 1898. Subjects: Romans England Cranborne Chase; Antiquities; Romans; Archaeology England 19th century; Excavations (Archaeology) England Antiquities; England Cranborne Chase.
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