postcard

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Content summary: a black and white etchings on a postcard of the long barrow south of Silbury Hill

Summary: A black and white etching on a postcard of the Long Barrow south if Silbury Hill with in the foreground a mounted horseman and two gentlemen on foot with a dog looking towards the Long Barrow. The caption for the Card is'An Archdruids barrow'. On the reverse is a foot note explaining why Stikeley call it 'the archdruid's barrow' and records when Dr William Stukeley visited the area. The images on the postcard were published originally in 1743.


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