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17 de may. de 2024 · Gerard died seised in 1506, leaving a son and heir William, who proved his age in 1527. William Stukeley died in 1538 seised of the manors of Stukeley, Nokes and Presteleyes, the heir, his son Matthew, being a minor.
Hace 5 días · A century later William Stukeley surveyed Stonehenge and its surrounding monuments, but it was not until 1874–77 that Flinders Petrie made the first accurate plan of the stones. In 1877 Charles Darwin dug two holes in Stonehenge to investigate the earth-moving capabilities of earthworms .
Hace 3 días · Visitors in the 17th and 18th centuries noticed a double wall in places, and William Stukeley claimed to have seen traces of stone and brick walls enclosing a rectangle 300 paces long and 200 broad. A ditch could also be traced in the 19th century.
Hace 4 días · The property, once owned by the Rev. William Stukeley, was bought by Henry Tatam, alderman and cabinet maker, in 1796 (All Saints' vestry, deposition, 1854). The house was built and presumably designed by Tatam between that date and 1801, and was described as newly built in 1802 (LRO, Barn Hill Methodist Church records, conveyance ...
Hace 5 horas · Early scholarly investigation of tumuli and theorising as to their origins was undertaken from the 17th century by antiquaries, notably John Aubrey, and William Stukeley. During the 19th century in England the excavation of tumuli was a popular pastime amongst the educated and wealthy upper classes, who became known as "barrow-diggers".
Hace 3 días · In 1719, William Stukeley described a partial skeleton of a plesiosaur, which had been brought to his attention by the great-grandfather of Charles Darwin, Robert Darwin of Elston. The stone plate came from a quarry at Fulbeck in Lincolnshire and had been used, with the fossil at its underside, to reinforce the slope of a watering ...
Hace 4 días · Glastonbury Abbey is 'identified with the earliest days of monasticism' in England, (fn. 1) closely associated with the West Saxon royal house and with the monastic reform of the 10th century, and at the Conquest was probably the richest ecclesiastical community in the realm.
