C. J. Arnold: The Anglo-Saxon cemeteries of the Isle of Wight. London: British Museum, 1982. 127 pp., 9 pls., 76 figs. £35.00.

Antiquity ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 57 (220) ◽  
pp. 156-157
Author(s):  
Catherine Hills
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Isle Of Wight

The Runic Inscription on the Isle of Wight Sword

PMLA ◽  
1903 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-98
Author(s):  
George Hempl
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
The Third ◽  
Supernatural Power

On page 459 of the third volume of his Old Northern Runic Monuments, and on page 245 of his Handbook, Stephens gave a cut of an Anglo-Saxon sword found on the Isle of Wight and now in the British Museum, Of this he wrote the following facts and fancies: “Found about the middle of this century in an Old English grave. But the runes were first seen in 1882 by Aug. W. Franks, Esq., the Director. . . . The runes are on the inner side of the silver scabbard-mount, and were only seen lately when the piece was cleaned. Hence their perfect preservation, tho so slightly cut-in. They have been hidden for some 1300 winters! . . . In this case the owner had cut this spell, singing therewith some chaunt of supernatural power, to overcome the easier his unsuspecting enemy. All such witchcraft and amulet-bearing etc. was strictly forbidden. Whatever the staves mean, this is the only such secret rune-risting yet found.” Stephens' rendering is, as usual, quite worthless: “? Awe (terror, death and destruction) to-the-seve (brynie, armor, weapons, of the foe)!”

III.—Sedgwick Museum Notes. New Crustacea from the Lower Greensand of the Isle of Wight

1911 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. Cowper Reed
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Large Series ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
London Clay

Amongst the large series of specimens of Meyeria recently obtained by the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, from the Lower Greensand of Atherfield, Isle of Wight, two new and strange forms, obviously referable to another genus, were detected by me in looking over the material. Their interest consists not only in belonging to new species but in representing the genus Thenops, of which the best known and only British species, so far described, is Th. scyllariformis, Bell, from the London Clay. There is one imperfect specimen in the British Museum from the Speeton Clay attributed (with a query) to Thenops, but no other British representative from the Cretaceous appears to have been found.

scholarly journals VIII.—On a Cœluroid Dinosaur from the Wealden

1889 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Lydekker
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
Formed Part

In going through the remains of Chelonia preserved in the British Museum I came across two vertebræ from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight, which had been inadvertently included in that series. These specimens (B.M. No. R. 901) formed part of the collection of the late Rev. Mr. Fox, and clearly indicate a small Dinosaur allied to the genus Cœlurus.

IV.—The Rotiform Bryozoa of the Isle of Wight

1907 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 442-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Gregory
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
The Body ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
Shaped Body ◽  
Outer Corner ◽  
Preliminary Account

A Small fossil with a wheel-shaped body borne on a narrow stem has long been known from the base of the Holaster planus zone in the Isle of Wight. It has been recognized as one of the Bryozoa, but has not been described, although once recorded as “near Defrancia diadema, Hag.” It has also been recorded by Dr. A. W. Rowe as “the beautiful little rotiform Bryozoon.”The following diagnosis has been lying unpublished for eight years in the manuscript of the second volume of the Catalogue of Cretaceous Bryozoa in the British Museum. A preliminary account of the species is now issued, as the name is wanted for reference in the course of Dr. A. W. Rowe's forthcoming memoir on the Chalk of the Isle of Wight. A fuller account of the species with illustrations, on plates drawn in 1900, will be given in the Catalogue, which it is hoped will be issued during this Winter.Blcavea Rotaformis, n.Sp.Diagnosis.—Zoarium simple or compound, with a narrow cylindrical stem, attached in a circular concavity in the lower part of the body. The body of the zoarium is discoid, or wheel-shaped, and has on the margin a series of vertical radial projections like cog-wheels. The cogs usually project for a distance nearly equal to the radius of the disc. The cogs may be prolonged at their upper, outer corner into spike-like fasciculi. The upper surface between the bases of the fasciculi is depressed, and occupied by the small, crowded, irregular apertures of the intermediate, subordinate zoœcia.

Additional observations on the osteology of the iguanodon and hylæosaurus

1851 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 804-806
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Vertebral Column ◽  
Spinal Column ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Previous Knowledge ◽  
The South ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
Fossil Remains ◽  
Private Collections

This memoir is supplementary to the author’s former communications to the Royal Society on the same subject, and comprises an account of some important additions which he has lately made to our previous knowledge of the osteological structure of the colossal reptiles of the Wealden of the South-east of England. The acquisition of some gigantic and well-preserved vertebræ and bones of the extremities from the Isle of Wight, and of other instructive specimens from Sussex and Surrey, induced the author to resume his examination of the detached parts of the skeletons of the Wealden reptiles in the British Museum, and in several private collections; and he states as the most important result of his investigations, the determination of the structure of the vertebral column, pectoral arch, and anterior extremities of the Iguanodon. In the laborious and difficult task of examining and comparing the numerous detached, and for the most part mutilated bones of the spinal column, Dr. Mantell expresses his deep obligation to Dr. G. A. Melville, whose elaborate and accurate anatomical description of the vertebræ is appended to the memoir. The most interesting fossil remains are described in detail in the following order.

The Limpsfield Grange disc

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Okasha ◽  
Susan Youngs
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Metal Detector ◽  
Arable Field

In March 1992 a diminutive decorated disc was submitted for comment to the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum. The owner had found it by using a metal detector in an arable field south of the M25 motorway at Limpsfield Grange in the parish of Limpsfield near Oxted, Surrey (NGR TQ 4053). The disc appeared to be an isolated find and a Coroner's Inquest was not held. The piece was subsequendy sent for auction and acquired by the British Museum acting in cooperation with Guildford Museum. There is no Anglo-Saxon material recorded from the immediate area.

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