Itinerarium Septentrionale : or, a journey thro' most of the counties of Scotland, and those in the north of England. In two parts ... illustrated with sixty-six copper plates
Gordon, Alexander 1692-1754?1727
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This work is the result of Alexander Gordon’s three year investigation of the Roman antiquities of Scotland. During this time, he visited different parts of Scotland and Northumberland, exploring, drawing, and measuring ancient remains, at much cost and some hardship. Liberal patrons, however, were not wanting, such as the Duke of Queensberry, to whom the work was subsequently dedicated, the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl of Findlater, the Earl of Hertford, and Viscount Bateman, whose cabinet of curiosities he was often enabled to enrich during his travels at home and abroad, Edward Chandler, then bishop of Lichfield, and Duncan Forbes of Culloden, at that time lord advocate. His great patron was Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, Edinburghshire. Gordon was a frequent guest at Old Penicuik House, where he had access to a splendid museum of antiquities, and was accompanied by Clerk in his Northumbrian explorations, as well as in others nearer home.
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London : Printed for F. Gyles in Holbourn, D Browne at the Black Swan..., Woodman and Lyon in Russel Street and C Davis in Hatton Garden. 1727
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188 p., plates : map, plans ; 36 cm.
Contents:
I. An account of all the monuments of Roman antiquity found and collected in that journey ... With a particular description of the Roman walls in Cumberland, Northumberland, and Scotland ...As also a view of the several places of encampment, made by theRomans.--II. An account of the Danish invasions on Scotland, and of the monuments erected there on the different defeats of that people. With other curious remains.
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DA145
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4/GOR
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English
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3433820