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The Selected Essays of a Groundbreaking Historian

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The Cornovia Press
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Table of Contents

Editor’s Preface Page iii
Acknowledgements Page vi
Author’s Preface Page vii
1. A Plea for Neutrality (New Cornwall, vol. 3, no. 4 (January 1955), pp.1, 2) Page 1
2. Youthful Ventures Into the Realms of Folk Studies Page 5
1. Present-day Charmers in Cornwall (Folk-Lore, vol. 64 (1953), pp.304, 305) Page 5
2. Underground Tunnels at Island Mahee, County Down (Ulster Folklife, vol. 3 (1957), p.72) Page 7
3. Archaeology and Folklore (Gwerin, vol. 3, no. 1 (June 1960), pp.7-17) Page 9
3. What Did They Do When it Rained in 1857? (The Scillonian, no. 223 (Summer 1986), pp.117-119) Page 12
4. Home Thoughts from Abroad (Camborne Wesley Journal, no. 39 (April 1948), p.3) Page 16
5. The Day That Never Came (The Cornish Review, 2nd series, issue no. 8 (Spring 1968), pp.5-12) Page 18
6. Camborne Festival Magazine Page 28
1. The Camborne Printing and Stationery Company (1971), pp.17-21. Page 29
2. The Camborne Students’ Association (1974), pp.13-15. Page 34
3. Camborne’s War Record, 1914-1919 (1976), pp.29-33. Page 38
4. The Camborne Volunteer Training Corps in World War One (1983), pp.10-12. Page 42
5. Carwynnen Quoit (1985), pp.14, 15. Page 46
7. Jottings from Gwithian Page 49
1. How Far Back Can We Go?, The Godrevy Light 25 (October 2006), pp.6-8. Page 50
2. Ladies of Gwithian, The Godrevy Light 34 (September 2007), pp.8, 9. Page 53
8. Two Funeral Orations Page 56
1. Charles Woolf, St Columb Minor Parish Church (25 July 1984). Page 57
2. Rudolf Glossop, St Buryan Parish Church (16 April 1993). Page 62
9. Archaeology and the Mind (An unpublished 1968 inaugural lecture) Page 67
10. The Archaeologist in Fiction (To Illustrate the Monuments: Essays on archaeology presented to Stuart Piggott, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London (1976), pp.310-319) Page 87
11. Archaeology, and the Concept of Cornishness (An unpublished 1995 memorial talk) Page 108
12. A Couple of Reviews Page 130
1. Lost Innocence: Archaeologists as People (Encounter, vol. 57, no. 6 (December 1981), pp.49-55) Page 132
2. The Cairo Trilogy (Literary Review (December 2001), pp.69-70) Page 142
13. An Impromptu Ode (To A.L. Rowse, 1999) Page 145
14. The Cerealogist Page 147
1. An Archaeologist’s View, issue no. 3 (Spring 1991), p.12. Page 148
2. Magnetic Anomalies, issue no. 5 (Winter 1991/92), p.10. Page 152
15. Two Cryptozoological Papers Page 155
1. The “Monster” Episode in Adomnan’s Life of St. Columba (Cryptozoology, vol. 7 (1988), pp.38-45) Page 156
2. A Black Cat Among the Pictish Beasts? (Pictish Arts Society Journal, no. 6 (Autumn 1994), pp.1-8) Page 166
Biography Page 177
Select Bibliography Page 184

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Bond, Chris

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Paperback
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4,x,200,2
Number of pages
216
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 centimeters

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OL25229203M
ISBN 10
1908878037
ISBN 13
9781908878038
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12371720

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