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Preparing for Publication, in One Vol. 8vo. 
LLUSTRATIONS of the REMAINS of 
ROMAN ART in CIRENCESTER, the 
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Oa PRIMEVAL ANTIQUITIES of 
DENMARK. By J. J. A. Worsaar, Member 
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useful Handbook for the use of those who desire to 
know something of the nature of the numerous Pri- 
meval Monuments scattered over these Islands, and 
the light which their investigation is calculated to 
throw over the earliest and most obscured periods of 
our national history, 
Oxford: Joun Henry Parker, and 377. Strand. 
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