Reginald A Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3599749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reginald A Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reginald A |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Faculty of 1000 (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1908 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The geoarchaeology of Mycenaean chamber tombs
Mochlos IIC: Period IV. The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery: The Human Remains and Other Finds
Homo Sapiens and H. G. Wells
In a comparative study of modern French and English culture published in a recent number of the Spectator, Mr. D. R. Gillie commented on the ‘unnatural prolongation of the joint reign of Mr. H. G. Wells and Mr. Bernard Shaw over British reason.’ Whatever explanations may be offered—and Mr. Gillie himself attaches high importance to the success of the Group Movement, despised by the great majority of thinking people—there can surely be no doubting…
Selsey Treasure Trove
Examples of Mesolithic Art
A Palaeolithic Succession at Farnham, Surrey
The area which Mr. Reginald Smith asked me to watch since 1922 is that of the upper reaches of the River Wey from Alton to Farnham, a ten mile stretch of the valley of the Wey which in the 18th century was described by Arthur Young as “the finest ten miles in England.” To-day the Wey follows a zig-zag course some 50 ft. below the Railway Terrace on the South, and the opposite terrace on the North, on which the village of Bentley (Hants.) is built…
Currency Bars and Water-Clocks: A Reply
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Implements from High-Level Gravel near Canterbury
Though the terrace gravels and palaeoliths of north-west Kent are well-known, there is little published on the stratigraphy of implements elsewhere in the county, except the Sturry deposits, two miles north-east of Canterbury ( Archaeologia , LXXIV, 117). The geological Drift map is old (the latest edition issued in 1875), and there is no memoir to elucidate any but the Dartford area; but in 1925 the geology of the Canterbury district was describ…
The Winchester Anglo-Saxon Bowl
In August I was asked by the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society to undertake a tentative excavation of the earthwork near Winchester known as Oliver Cromwell's Battery to ascertain its date of construction. Mr. F. W. Talbot, the lessee of the site, Mr. E. S. McEuen, the Rev. S. T. Percival, Mr. G. Weeks, and Mr. Lewis Williams at once offered to join me, and with the help of our own men we were the working party. We had the assistanc…
I.— Celtic Bronzes from Lorraine
Since the purchase of the Morel Collection in 1901 the British Museum has been able to point to the Somme-Bionne chariot-burial as a notable example of the earliest definitely Celtic art of Europe; but a still finer group is now in process of acquisition, and is shown to the Society before passing into the hands of the Trustees. These four remarkable bronze vessels were found buried together on ioth February 1928, during excavations for a cellar …
Romans, Kelts, and Saxons in Ancient Britain: An Investigation into the two dark Centuries (400–600) of English History. By R. E. Zachrisson (Skrifter utgivna av K. Humanistiska Vetenskaps Samfundet i…
Romans, Kelts, and Saxons in Ancient Britain: an Investigation into the two dark Centuries (400–600) of English History. By R. E. Zachrisson (Skrifter utgivna av K. Humanistiska Vetenskaps Samfundet i Uppsala, xxiv, 12). Uppsala and Leipzig, 1927. - Volume 8 Issue 4
VII.— Pre-Roman Remains at Scarborough
At the eastward extremity of Castle Hill, Scarborough, below medieval and Anglo-Saxon chapels and the foundations of a Roman signal-station, have been found several filled-up pits containing pottery fragments of a date long anterior to the work of about a.d. 370, as the Roman walls had been carried over some of them with no precautions against settlement, and the contents showed no admixture of Roman date. In fact there must have been an interval…
The Physical Geography of South-Eastern Arabia
IV. Flint Arrow-heads in Britain
By examining those arrow-heads which are known to have been found in strict association with typical objects and by ignoring those from the material of barrows or from the surface of ploughed fields, it should be possible to classify the series and to establish the successive changes in an article of common use during the later Stone and Bronze Ages of Britain. Only brief references to continental work on the subject will be necessary to enable c…
I.— Prehistoric and Roman Settlements on Park Brow
In a paper describing the discovery and partial excavation of an Early Iron Age settlement on Park Brow Hill near Cissbury, published in the Antiquaries Journal , vol. iv, mention was made of the location of two other habitation sites on the hill—one Roman, and another probably occupied during the Bronze Age of Britain. It was to this latter site that I decided to attend in 1924, the object being to examine the relation between this settlement an…
IV.— The Perforated Axe-hammers of Britain
A Natural tendency to regard perforated axe-hammers as belonging to the Neolithic period, the Age of polished stone, is soon corrected by a study of the available evidence, which shows that most of the specimens found in Britain date from the Bronze Age, several having been discovered in association with that metal. If any reliance can be placed on the division of the Bronze Age into two parts, characterized respectively by inhumation and cremati…
Two Early British Bronze Bowls
Works of art dating from the Early Iron Age of Britain have an interest proportionate to their scarcity, and two examples to be added to the list are destined for public museums. The Society is privileged to examine them before they leave London for their permanent homes in the West
X.— Examples of Anglian Art
In Prof. J. Strzygowski's recent work in English on the Origin of Christian Church Art , there is a chapter on Hiberno-Saxon art in the time of Bede (673–735); with the following striking passage: ‘Whether I turn to the remains of Anglo-Saxon churches, to the crosses, or to the manuscripts of the time of Bede, I feel in the presence of an art which differs from every other art in the world. Above all, I feel that we have here no mere pale reflect…
V.— Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent
A combination of circumstances having recently brought the Canterbury gravels into prominence, a preliminary survey of some implement-bearing deposits in the Stour valley is now offered to the Society for comparison or contrast with the report on the Swanscombe and Dartford areas in the Thames valley published in Archaeologia , lxiv and lxv. The map of Kent issued by the Geological Survey in 1865 showed only the solid geology, not the Drift depos…
Förhistorisk Nordisk Ornamentik. Av Nils Å Berg: Föreningen Urds Skrifter III. 81⁄4 × 51⁄2; pp. xxvi + 154. Uppsala: J. A. Lindblads Förlag. 1925
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The Beeston Tor Hoard
The discovery of several coin-hoards including the first issue of King Alfred points to widespread disturbance and consequent insecurity which are easily explained by the Danish menace; and the exploration of Beeston Tor cave by the Rev. G. H. Wilson, of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, confirms this surmise, and at the same time gives a precise date to some jewellery which would otherwise remain conjectural. Incidentally it throws light on a discovery record…
Discoveries near Cissbury
Park Brow is a ridge of the South Downs, running roughly north and south. The southern end of the hill, upon which three early inhabited sites have been found, abuts on the valley from which rises the higher hill crowned by Cissbury camp. On Park Brow there is clear evidence of the presence of man in ancient days. Very many lynchets or steep banks are found, a sunken trackway runs along the southern crest of the hill, adjoining which, where it pa…
La Tène: Monographie de la station publiée au nom de la Commission des fouilles de la Tène. Par Paul Vouga. 121⁄2 × 93⁄4; pp. ix + 91. With 50 plates, 2 plans, and 12 figures in text. Leipzig: Hiersem…
La Tène: monographie de la station publiée au nom de la Commission des fouilles de la Tène. Par Paul Vouga. 121⁄2 × 93⁄4; pp. ix + 91. With 50 plates, 2 plans, and 12 figures in text. Leipzig: Hiersemann. 1923. - Volume 4 Issue 2
Pottery finds at Wisley
The site adjoining the septic tanks and filters of the Byfleet and Pyrford sewage works was, on the occasion of some discoveries in 1922-3, described in the press as a Pottery-village, but has now been shown to have been occupied in the late Neolithic and Early Iron Ages by pit-dwellers who left behind plentiful traces of their culture in the shape of potsherds, and manufactured pottery on the spot, as four large kilns were uncovered and one smal…
Two Prehistoric Vessels
Before being presented to the British Museum by Mr. G. W. Smith, two pottery vessels of exceptional interest were exhibited to the Society on 6th December 1923, and are here illustrated from photographs. Both have been made up from fragments, but the result is unusually successful inasmuch as the fractures were recent and very little was missing in either case, the profiles above all being complete and the bases unquestionable
XXIII.— A Palaeolithic Industry at Northfleet, Kent
The general recognition of man's existence in this country during the deposition of the terrace-gravels of our southern rivers may be said to date from a paper read to this Society by Sir John Evans in 1859; and it was in the same year that McEnery's papers relating to his labours in Kent's Cavern were published, demonstrating the former presence of palaeolithic cave-man on this side of the Channel. The transition from river-drift to cave-deposit…
IV.— Stratification at Swanscombe: Report on Excavations made on behalf of the British Museum and H. M. Geological Survey
One of the finest gravel-pits in the world for flint implements is in process of extinction, and a final opportunity has been given for studying its stratification with a view to classifying, however roughly, the thousands of specimens from this site that have passed into public and private collections both at home and abroad. Every collector is familiar with the name of Swanscombe, a village on the south bank of the Thames between Dartford and G…
The geoarchaeology of Mycenaean chamber tombs
Implements from High-Level Gravel near Canterbury
Though the terrace gravels and palaeoliths of north-west Kent are well-known, there is little published on the stratigraphy of implements elsewhere in the county, except the Sturry deposits, two miles north-east of Canterbury ( Archaeologia , LXXIV, 117). The geological Drift map is old (the latest edition issued in 1875), and there is no memoir to elucidate any but the Dartford area; but in 1925 the geology of the Canterbury district was describ…
I.— Prehistoric and Roman Settlements on Park Brow
In a paper describing the discovery and partial excavation of an Early Iron Age settlement on Park Brow Hill near Cissbury, published in the Antiquaries Journal , vol. iv, mention was made of the location of two other habitation sites on the hill—one Roman, and another probably occupied during the Bronze Age of Britain. It was to this latter site that I decided to attend in 1924, the object being to examine the relation between this settlement an…
VII.— Pre-Roman Remains at Scarborough
At the eastward extremity of Castle Hill, Scarborough, below medieval and Anglo-Saxon chapels and the foundations of a Roman signal-station, have been found several filled-up pits containing pottery fragments of a date long anterior to the work of about a.d. 370, as the Roman walls had been carried over some of them with no precautions against settlement, and the contents showed no admixture of Roman date. In fact there must have been an interval…
VII.— On the Date of Grime's Graves and Cissbury Flint-mines
The formal recognition by the Monaco Congress (1906) of the Aurignac stage of culture marks a distinct advance in the classification of palaeolithic cave-relics. The point has been keenly debated, but most are now agreed that Aurignac, as a typical station, comes between Le Moustier and Solutré, and represents a civilization that extended over a large part of Europe. This stage has in recent years been so thoroughly studied that its distinctive t…
Two Early British Bronze Bowls
Works of art dating from the Early Iron Age of Britain have an interest proportionate to their scarcity, and two examples to be added to the list are destined for public museums. The Society is privileged to examine them before they leave London for their permanent homes in the West
Recent Finds of the Stone Age in Africa
represent an archaic Indonesian type belonging to a date prior to the adoption of lashing as a means of securing the float to the connecting piece.But the Boro Budur sculptures in Java, dating from the seventh or eighth centuries of our era, furnish representations of outrigger ships with lashed-on booms, hence the arrival of the pegged design in the Comoros and in Africa presumably must long antedate that period.Regarding the linguistic side of …
The Physical Geography of South-Eastern Arabia
Discoveries near Cissbury
Park Brow is a ridge of the South Downs, running roughly north and south. The southern end of the hill, upon which three early inhabited sites have been found, abuts on the valley from which rises the higher hill crowned by Cissbury camp. On Park Brow there is clear evidence of the presence of man in ancient days. Very many lynchets or steep banks are found, a sunken trackway runs along the southern crest of the hill, adjoining which, where it pa…
Early Anglo-Saxon Weights
In our Proceedings xvi, 174, is an illustration of a bronze weight found at Grove Ferry, near Fordwich, Kent, and exhibited by Col. Copeland, who subsequently presented it to the British Museum. There is a description by bur present President, with references to other weights from Kentish graves of the sixth century, which were later studied by Mr. Fred. Seebohm; but it has recently been re-weighed, and its value found to be 576 troy (or barley) …
On Some Recent Exhibits
In April last the Society published two gold crescents found in Cornwall and now in Truro Museum; and in view of the proximity of Ireland, it is not surprising that others have been found; but the present exhibit (figs. 1–3) is the most important of its kind, being the only case in which anything to indicate a precise date has been found with gold crescents anywhere. Mr. George Penrose, Local Secretary, and Curator of Truro Museum, sent with the …
A Palaeolithic Succession at Farnham, Surrey
The area which Mr. Reginald Smith asked me to watch since 1922 is that of the upper reaches of the River Wey from Alton to Farnham, a ten mile stretch of the valley of the Wey which in the 18th century was described by Arthur Young as “the finest ten miles in England.” To-day the Wey follows a zig-zag course some 50 ft. below the Railway Terrace on the South, and the opposite terrace on the North, on which the village of Bentley (Hants.) is built…
The Winchester Anglo-Saxon Bowl
In August I was asked by the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society to undertake a tentative excavation of the earthwork near Winchester known as Oliver Cromwell's Battery to ascertain its date of construction. Mr. F. W. Talbot, the lessee of the site, Mr. E. S. McEuen, the Rev. S. T. Percival, Mr. G. Weeks, and Mr. Lewis Williams at once offered to join me, and with the help of our own men we were the working party. We had the assistanc…
Wayland's Smithy, Berkshire
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Greenhithe Shell-Bed
The Hunsbury Hill Finds
The Evolution and Distribution of Some Anglo-Saxon Brooches
Of recent years much attention has been given, especially in Scandinavia, to the large number of brooches which have come down to us from the Bronze and Early Iron Ages ; and I propose to draw on some of this material, but shall not attempt more than a summary of the information now available with regard to the leading types of the pagan Anglo-Saxon period.In a single paper more would be impossible ; and though my treatment of the subject may app…
IX.— On a Late-Celtic Mirror found at Desborough, Northants, and other Mirrors of the Period
Ironstone-digging for commercial purposes has resulted in numerous archaeological discoveries over wide areas in Northants and Rutland, as well as in certain parts of adjoining counties, but the conditions of the work render supervision difficult and delay practically impossible. The rescue of antiquities from time to time by the workmen must therefore be considered as a lucky accident, and it is only occasionally that trustworthy information as …
XIV.— The Discovery of Prehistoric Pits at Peterborough and the Development of Neolithic Pottery
The series of relics exhibited to the Society come from an early settlement at Peterborough, dating from a time when flint was in general use, perhaps before the introduction of metal, at least among the poorer inhabitants of the country. The site is a promontory rising out of the Fens and lying on the north-east side of the town. The river Nene joined the Fens about half a mile to the south-west of the site, which is only a few feet above sea-le…
XXIII.— A Palaeolithic Industry at Northfleet, Kent
The general recognition of man's existence in this country during the deposition of the terrace-gravels of our southern rivers may be said to date from a paper read to this Society by Sir John Evans in 1859; and it was in the same year that McEnery's papers relating to his labours in Kent's Cavern were published, demonstrating the former presence of palaeolithic cave-man on this side of the Channel. The transition from river-drift to cave-deposit…
The Stone Age in Chinese Turkestan
I.— On Late-Celtic Antiquities discovered at Welwyn, Herts
Since the extensive find at Aylesford, published by the Society in 1890, there have been numerous isolated discoveries of pedestal and other urns, especially in Essex and Kent, most of which have found their way into Colchester Museum; but nothing that could be said to throw any new light on the Early Iron Age of Britain was met with till 1906, when burial vaults were discovered at Welwyn (fig. 1). To ensure greater privacy the late Mr. George Ed…
VII.— On the Date of Grime's Graves and Cissbury Flint-mines
The formal recognition by the Monaco Congress (1906) of the Aurignac stage of culture marks a distinct advance in the classification of palaeolithic cave-relics. The point has been keenly debated, but most are now agreed that Aurignac, as a typical station, comes between Le Moustier and Solutré, and represents a civilization that extended over a large part of Europe. This stage has in recent years been so thoroughly studied that its distinctive t…
The Hunsbury Hill Finds
IV.— Stratification at Swanscombe: Report on Excavations made on behalf of the British Museum and H. M. Geological Survey
One of the finest gravel-pits in the world for flint implements is in process of extinction, and a final opportunity has been given for studying its stratification with a view to classifying, however roughly, the thousands of specimens from this site that have passed into public and private collections both at home and abroad. Every collector is familiar with the name of Swanscombe, a village on the south bank of the Thames between Dartford and G…
VII.— Irish Brooches of Five Centuries
A number of ancient brooches on the penannular principle is to be seen in the British Museum and the National Museum of Antiquities at Edinburgh, as well as in the National Museum at Dublin, where most are naturally preserved, as the type is predominantly Irish. It is not surprising to find that the ends of the hoop are frequently joined, thus rendering the ordinary name in a strict sense inapplicable, but it will be convenient to include as pena…
V.— The High Terrace of the Thames: Report on Excavations made on behalf of the British Museum and H.M. Geological Survey in 1913
The joint investigation of the deposits belonging to the 100-ft. terrace of the river Thames was continued last year under the same auspices as in 1912 at certain spots in the neighbourhood of Greenhithe and Crayford, respectively east andwest of Dartford, Kent. Special facilities were again afforded by the Trustees ofthe British Museum and the Director of the Geological Survey; but the fund drawn on for this work is under the control of Sir Herc…
Flint-Finds in Connection with Sand
VI.— Researches at Rickmansworth: Report on Excavations made in 1914 on behalf of the British Museum
After two short seasons spent in investigating the high terrace of the lower Thames, it was considered desirable to examine the gravel of a tributary, in order to equate if possible the various deposits in the two valleys, and to confirm or correct the sequence deduced from former excavatións at home and abroad. Two sites near Rickmansworth, at and just below the junction of the Gade and Colne rivers, have been known for years as productive of pa…
II.— Origin of the Neolithic Celt
According to the text-books, the celt is the predominant type of implement in the neolithic period, just as the coup de poing (hand-axe) is in the palaeolithic; and it is curious that the relationship between these two widely distributed forms should not have been already demonstrated. It is reasonable to expect that there was some link between at least the commoner implements of these two parts of the Stone Age, now that the great hiatus is redu…
VIII.— Roman Roads and the Distribution of Saxon Churches in London
The two centuries after the official withdrawal of the Romans from Britain are almost a blank in the history of the capital, and it is only fitting that the Society of Antiquaries of-London should discuss any new evidence of the city's condition during that period of transition. The picture has indeed been painted by a master-hand, but even John Richard Green's arguments are weakened by certain inconsistencies, and archaeology may be called in to…
Greenhithe Shell-Bed
Recent Finds of the Stone Age in Africa
represent an archaic Indonesian type belonging to a date prior to the adoption of lashing as a means of securing the float to the connecting piece.But the Boro Budur sculptures in Java, dating from the seventh or eighth centuries of our era, furnish representations of outrigger ships with lashed-on booms, hence the arrival of the pegged design in the Comoros and in Africa presumably must long antedate that period.Regarding the linguistic side of …
I.— Specimens from the Layton Collection, in Brentford Public Library
Mr. Thomas Layton died on 4th September 1911 at the advanced age of ninety-two years, having been a Fellow of this Society since 1868. He had contributed to the Bronze Age Exhibition at Somerset House in 1872, and in 1883 gave a remarkable Roman sword and sheath (fig. 25) to the British Museum; but otherwise his energies were devoted to collecting, unhappily with little method or discretion, and the task of carrying out the terms of his will was …
Esquisse d'une monographie des couches quaternaires visibles dans l'exploitation de la Société des carrières du Hainaut à Soignies, par A. Rutot (Bruxelles, 1920, extrait des Mémoires publiés par l'Ac…
Esquisse d'une monographie des couches quaternaires visibles dans l'exploitation de la Société des carrières du Hainaut à Soignies, par A. Rutot (Bruxelles, 1920, extrait des Mémoires publiés par l'Académie royale de Belgique, IV). - Volume 1 Issue 3
IV.— Hoards of Neolithic Celts
More than anywhere else in Europe the Neolithic Period has been studied in Scandinavia, where finds are exceptionally rich, and circumstances have made a sequence possible. Isolated attempts have been made to formulate an evolution series in France (Déchelette, Manuel , i, 514-16; L'Homme préhistorique , 1907, p. 71) and Germany ( Prähistorische Zeitschrift , vi (1914), p. 29), but the material is not so abundant, and association of types in hoar…
The Seven Barrows at Lambourn
Irish Gold Crescents
Since their first publication in 1757 ( Archaeologia , ii, 32, pl. ii), the gold crescents characteristic of the Early Bronze Age of Ireland have remained in part unexplained; and the various names suggested for them reflect the prevailing uncertainty as to their use and significance. In his recently published Catalogue of Irish Gold Ornaments , our Fellow Mr. Armstrong has brought together all the existing material, and on consideration adopts t…
Ertog og Øre: Den gamle norske vegt, av A. W. Brøgger (Videnskapsselskapets Skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. Klasse, 1921, no. 3). Kristiania, 1921; pp. 112; 58 figs, and 2 plates
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Wayland's Smithy, Berkshire
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Ruskenesset: En stenalders jagtplass, av Aug. Brinkmann og Haakon Shetelig ( Norske Oldfund: Avhandlinger utgit av det norske arkeologiske Selskap , Kristiania, 1920)
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