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AN INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET: VOLUME TWO SOUTH-EAST (3 VOLUMES)

Published by Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England. 1st. 1970

Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Describing the contents of 53 parishes in the south-eastern part of Dorset, in three seperately bound parts. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt titles and crest to front. B/w photos, illustrations and plans, some folding. Maps in pocket to rear. A very heavy set.

A lovely set. Price-cut dustwrappers are lightly rubbed at corners.

ISBN: 011700457X
Stock no. 1827723

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Contents

  • Part 1
  • List of Parishes in the inventory
  • List of Plates etc.
  • Chairman's Preface
  • Royal Warrants
  • Report with List of Monuments selected by the Commissioners as especially worth of preservation
  • Introduction to the Topography, Settlement, Building Materials, etc of S.E. Dorset
  • Sectional Preface
  • Inventory of the post-Roman buildings and Mediaeval and later Earthworks in S.E. Dorse accredited toa date before 1850 (Affpuddle-Owermoigne)
  • Plan of Corfe castle
  • Part 2
  • List of Parishes in the Inventory
  • List of Plates etc
  • Inventory continued (Poole-Worth Matravers)
  • Railways in S.E. Dorset
  • Maps (four) of the town of Poole, of medieval earthworks, etc. in Tyneham and Winterbourne Steepleton, and of the Parishes in S.E. Dorset
  • Part 3
  • List of Parishes in the Inventory
  • List of Plates etc.
  • Inventory of Prehistoric, Roman and undated Earthworks, other Roman remains and Ancient Fields in S.E. Dorset
  • Glossary
  • Abbreviations used in the Inventory
  • Bazons of unidentified arms
  • Index
  • Map of the S. Dorset Ridgeway area showing Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows and sites

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