John Yonge Akerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6399172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Yonge Akerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Yonge |
| FAMILY NAME | Akerman |
| SIGNATURE | AKERMAN J Y |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1844 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1869 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
VII.— Notes on the “Hwiting Treow” of the Anglo-Saxons
Tacitus, in his description of the ancient Germans, speaks of their reliance upon auguries and decisions by lot. The latter was performed with twigs cut from the branches of a fruit-bearing tree, and thrown upon a white garment:—“Sortium consuetudo simplex. Virgam frugiferæ arbori decisam in surculos amputant eosque notis quibusdam discretos super candidam vestem temere ac fortuito spargunt.”—Germ. 10
IX.— Report on further Researches in an Anglo-Saxon Burial Ground at Long Wittenham, Berkshire, in the Summer of 1860
I beg leave to lay before the Society of Antiquaries a further report of my researches in the Anglo-Saxon Burial Ground at Long Wittenham, which were renewed in the summer and autumn of last year, with the kind co-operation of the Vicar, the Rev. J. C. Clutterbuck. These researches terminated earlier than I anticipated, and the result appears to show that the cemetery did not extend beyond the limits of the plot of ground called “the Free Acre,” …
XXVIII.— Notes on the Origin and History of the Bayonet
In attempting to investigate the origin and history of the bayonet, we encounter, at the outset, considerable difficulty; even the derivation of its name is involved in obscurity. In the dictionary of Cotgrave, first published in 1611, we find, “ Bayonnette , a kind of small flat pocket-dagger, furnished with knives; or a great knife to hang at the girdle, like a dagger.” The same authority gives us “ Bayonnier , as arbalestier (an old word).” In…
XXIII. Report on Researches in an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Long Wittenham, Berkshire, in 1859
The Valley of the Thames had naturally many attractions for our Saxon forefathers. Their cattle found in its meadows abundant pasturage, its marshes were the resort of myriads of wild fowl, while the stream itself afforded the means of transit between the towns and villages on its banks, many of which retain in their names evidence of their Anglo-Saxon origin
IV.— “Furca et Fossa
In an age when the voice of philanthropy is raised against the extreme penalty of the law, an inquiry into the origin and practice of certain modes of capital punishment, now obsolete, but long known to our ancestors, may not be deemed unworthy the attention of this Society
VII.— Second Report of Researches in a Cemetery of the Anglo-Saxon period at Brighthampton, Oxon. Addressed to the Earl Stanhope, President
I have the honour to report to the Society of Antiquaries the result of renewed researches during the present autumn in the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Brighthampton. The reliques on the table are evidence that on the former occasion this ancient burialplace was but partially explored. I have now the gratification of exhibiting a series of ancient remains inferior in interest to none that research or accident has brought to light in this country
XXIV. Report of Researches in a Cemetery of the Anglo-Saxon Period at Brighthampton, co. Oxford; in a Letter addressed to the Right Hon. the Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., President
While engaged in my recent perambulation of the forest of Wychwood, I paid a visit to Stanlake, near Witney, the scene of Mr. Stone's researches, communicated by that gentleman to the Society in the last session. On that occasion Mr. Stone informed me of the discovery of Anglo-Saxon remains in the adjoining village of Brighthampton. His account is as follows:— “On the 24th June, 1857, as some workmen were employed on the site of the old malthouse…
XXVI.— A View of the Ancient Limits of the Forest of Wychwood
The attention of the Council of the Society of Antiquaries having been directed to the recent Act of Parliament for the disafforesting of the royal forest of Wychwood, it was deemed right that some account of its ancient and recently existing state should be placed on record: I accordingly proceeded in the autumn of the past year to make a personal survey of this well-known yet but little explored district,—a district which in old times extended,…
XXII. An Account of the Investigation of some remarkable Circular Trenches, and the Discovery of an Ancient British Cemetery, at Stanlake, Oxon
In a communication by Mr. Stone, read to the Society of Antiquaries in the last session, the writer alluded to the appearance of a number of circles, heretofore looked upon by the country people as “Fairy Rings,” which had been observed by him among the corn. As the summer advanced, additional circles became visible, and finally the number which could be distinctly traced amounted to thirteen
XVIII. Some Account of the Possessions of the Abbey of Malmesbury, in North Wilts, in the days of the Anglo-Saxon Kings ; with Remarks on the Ancient Limits of the Forest of Braden
At the commencement of the present session I had the honour of communicating to the Society some remarks on land limits, appended to a charter of King Athelstan to the Abbey of Malmesbury, the result of a personal survey of Kemble and Ewen, in the northern extremity of the county of Wilts. The success of my investigations on that occasion encouraged me to pursue my researches still further, and to attempt, during the recess, an identification of …
XII. An Account of Researches in Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries at Filkins, and at Broughton Poggs in Oxfordshire
During the last winter a mason, named John Farmer, while engaged in digging for stone in the village of Filkins, unexpectedly brought to light some Anglo-Saxon remains. Hearing by chance of this discovery, I proceeded to Filkins, and from the account I then received, I at once determined to apply for permission to undertake a systematic investigation of the spot. This was kindly granted by Mr. Robert Watts, the owner of the land, and on the 30th …
VII. On the Distaff and the Spindle, as the Insignia of the Female Sex in former times
It is the especial province of the antiquary to collect and arrange, under one view, the scattered notices to be found in old writers, and to illustrate those notices by comparing them with the monuments which time has spared, and the usages which yet linger among us. By such means, passages in history, which are, in themselves, purely incidental and subordinate, are made to bear their share in the illustration of past ages, and thus to afford oc…
XVII.— Notes of Antiquarian Researches in the Summer and Autumn of 1854
On the 30th June last, at the invitation of the Council of the Surrey Archæological Society, I assisted at the opening of a Barrow at Teddington, near Kingston-on-Thames, but north of the river, and therefore in the county of Middlesex
VI. Note on a Variety of Objects discovered during the progress of Excavations for Sewerage in Salisbury
By the kind permission of Mr. Edward C. Brodie, of Salisbury, I submit to the inspection of the Society a very numerous collection of objects discovered in that city during the progress of excavations for the new sewers. They consist of—1. Knives, of various descriptions; 2. Shears; 3. Spoons; 4. Padlocks; 5. Keys; 6. Weapons; 7. Buckles; 8. Pilgrims' signs; 9. Rings; and some other relics, the uses of which are not easily ascertained
VIII. Note on the Angon of Agathias
In my communication “On some of the Weapons of the Celtic and Teutonic Races” read to the Society some time since, I alluded to the fact of the weapon termed “angon” by Agathias never having been found in any of the numerous graves of the Frank and Anglo-Saxon period explored in France and in this country. The subject was thought not undeserving the attention of an active and observant Fellow of the Society, and accordingly Mr. Wylie on the 20th …
XIX. Account of Silver Rings and Coins discovered near Worcester
“There has been a find of about 215 silver pennies, also four rings set with gems, a ring twisted like a wreath, a ring with crosses on it, and a gimmal ring (at least one with a hand like a gimmal ring), and a brooch double-wreathed, with a tongue something like what I saw when young in peasants' shirts, to keep the two parts together at the breast
XIV.— Ancient Gold Ornaments
With the exception of Figs. 1, 2, 3, the Gold Ornaments engraved in Plate VIII. have no reference whatever to each other. The first three were obtained by Viscount Strangford, Director of the Society, from a Greek priest at Milo, in the year 1820. Figs. 1 and 3 appear to have formed the ends of a light chain, and the other (fig. 2) to have been pendent by a small loop on the top of the head. The figure has unfortunately lost the feet and the left…
IX.— An Account of Excavations on the Site of some Ancient Potteries in the Western District of the New Forest
In the spring of the past year I received information from my friend the Reverend J. Pemberton Bartlett of the discovery of what appeared to be the site of potteries during the Roman possession of Britain, in the western district of the New Forest. Mr. Bartlett, at the same time, forwarded a hamper of the shards which had been turned up, and also a number of vessels which he had succeeded in obtaining by excavations on the spot. These examples we…
XIX.— Account of some “Roundells” or Fruit Trenchers of the time of James the First. In a Letter from John Yonge Akerman, Esq., Secretary, to the Viscount Mahon, President
Having examined and transcribed the verses on the nine Roundels forwarded to your Lordship by Colonel Sykes for exhibition to the Society of Antiquaries (Plate XVIII.), I beg to submit the result. These examples of long since obsolete objects are, in more respects than one, of some interest to the English antiquary, but they are especially so from their bearing very well executed and characteristic figures of persons in various grades of life in …
XXXII.— Report of the Committee appointed by the Council of the Society of Antiquaries to investigate the circumstances attending the recent Discovery of a Body in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster
The Committee appointed by the Council on the 20th January, 1852, to investigate the circumstances attending the recent discovery of a body in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, with power to have drawings made and with directions to report to the Society, beg to report, that, having obtained the necessary permission from Charles Barry, Esq., and secured the services of Mr. Scharf as draughtsman, they proceeded, on Friday the 23rd January, to the…
XXIII.— Observations on the celebrated Monument at Ashbury, in the county of Berks, called “Wayland Smith's Cave
I beg to submit through you to the Society of Antiquaries, drawings, from actual admeasurement, by Mr. C. W. Edmonds, of that interesting monument of the Celtic period, popularly known as “ Wayland Smith's Cave ,” (PI. XVII.) situated at Ashbury, in the county of Berks. At a period when Antiquarian researches are prosecuted with so much zeal and vigour, anything that may assist our knowledge of the manners and customs of the early races in Britai…
IV. Account of the opening by Matthew Bell, Esq. of an ancient British Barrow, in Iffins Wood, near Canterbury, in the month of January , 1842, in a Letter from John Yonge Akerman, Esq. F.S.A., to Sir…
The various groups of tumuli in the eastern parts of Kent are well known to our English antiquaries; and it is a fact pretty generally established, that they are referable to a period extending from the time of the abandonment of this Island by the Romans (and perhaps earlier) down to the establishment of Christianity, when it became the practice to inter the dead in some consecrated place, within the precincts of the church. To this period belon…
XXIII. Report on Researches in an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Long Wittenham, Berkshire, in 1859
The Valley of the Thames had naturally many attractions for our Saxon forefathers. Their cattle found in its meadows abundant pasturage, its marshes were the resort of myriads of wild fowl, while the stream itself afforded the means of transit between the towns and villages on its banks, many of which retain in their names evidence of their Anglo-Saxon origin
IV. Account of the opening by Matthew Bell, Esq. of an ancient British Barrow, in Iffins Wood, near Canterbury, in the month of January , 1842, in a Letter from John Yonge Akerman, Esq. F.S.A., to Sir…
The various groups of tumuli in the eastern parts of Kent are well known to our English antiquaries; and it is a fact pretty generally established, that they are referable to a period extending from the time of the abandonment of this Island by the Romans (and perhaps earlier) down to the establishment of Christianity, when it became the practice to inter the dead in some consecrated place, within the precincts of the church. To this period belon…
XXIII.— Observations on the celebrated Monument at Ashbury, in the county of Berks, called “Wayland Smith's Cave
I beg to submit through you to the Society of Antiquaries, drawings, from actual admeasurement, by Mr. C. W. Edmonds, of that interesting monument of the Celtic period, popularly known as “ Wayland Smith's Cave ,” (PI. XVII.) situated at Ashbury, in the county of Berks. At a period when Antiquarian researches are prosecuted with so much zeal and vigour, anything that may assist our knowledge of the manners and customs of the early races in Britai…
XIX.— Account of some “Roundells” or Fruit Trenchers of the time of James the First. In a Letter from John Yonge Akerman, Esq., Secretary, to the Viscount Mahon, President
Having examined and transcribed the verses on the nine Roundels forwarded to your Lordship by Colonel Sykes for exhibition to the Society of Antiquaries (Plate XVIII.), I beg to submit the result. These examples of long since obsolete objects are, in more respects than one, of some interest to the English antiquary, but they are especially so from their bearing very well executed and characteristic figures of persons in various grades of life in …
XXXII.— Report of the Committee appointed by the Council of the Society of Antiquaries to investigate the circumstances attending the recent Discovery of a Body in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster
The Committee appointed by the Council on the 20th January, 1852, to investigate the circumstances attending the recent discovery of a body in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, with power to have drawings made and with directions to report to the Society, beg to report, that, having obtained the necessary permission from Charles Barry, Esq., and secured the services of Mr. Scharf as draughtsman, they proceeded, on Friday the 23rd January, to the…
XIV.— Ancient Gold Ornaments
With the exception of Figs. 1, 2, 3, the Gold Ornaments engraved in Plate VIII. have no reference whatever to each other. The first three were obtained by Viscount Strangford, Director of the Society, from a Greek priest at Milo, in the year 1820. Figs. 1 and 3 appear to have formed the ends of a light chain, and the other (fig. 2) to have been pendent by a small loop on the top of the head. The figure has unfortunately lost the feet and the left…
IX.— An Account of Excavations on the Site of some Ancient Potteries in the Western District of the New Forest
In the spring of the past year I received information from my friend the Reverend J. Pemberton Bartlett of the discovery of what appeared to be the site of potteries during the Roman possession of Britain, in the western district of the New Forest. Mr. Bartlett, at the same time, forwarded a hamper of the shards which had been turned up, and also a number of vessels which he had succeeded in obtaining by excavations on the spot. These examples we…
XVII.— Notes of Antiquarian Researches in the Summer and Autumn of 1854
On the 30th June last, at the invitation of the Council of the Surrey Archæological Society, I assisted at the opening of a Barrow at Teddington, near Kingston-on-Thames, but north of the river, and therefore in the county of Middlesex
VI. Note on a Variety of Objects discovered during the progress of Excavations for Sewerage in Salisbury
By the kind permission of Mr. Edward C. Brodie, of Salisbury, I submit to the inspection of the Society a very numerous collection of objects discovered in that city during the progress of excavations for the new sewers. They consist of—1. Knives, of various descriptions; 2. Shears; 3. Spoons; 4. Padlocks; 5. Keys; 6. Weapons; 7. Buckles; 8. Pilgrims' signs; 9. Rings; and some other relics, the uses of which are not easily ascertained
VIII. Note on the Angon of Agathias
In my communication “On some of the Weapons of the Celtic and Teutonic Races” read to the Society some time since, I alluded to the fact of the weapon termed “angon” by Agathias never having been found in any of the numerous graves of the Frank and Anglo-Saxon period explored in France and in this country. The subject was thought not undeserving the attention of an active and observant Fellow of the Society, and accordingly Mr. Wylie on the 20th …
XIX. Account of Silver Rings and Coins discovered near Worcester
“There has been a find of about 215 silver pennies, also four rings set with gems, a ring twisted like a wreath, a ring with crosses on it, and a gimmal ring (at least one with a hand like a gimmal ring), and a brooch double-wreathed, with a tongue something like what I saw when young in peasants' shirts, to keep the two parts together at the breast
XVIII. Some Account of the Possessions of the Abbey of Malmesbury, in North Wilts, in the days of the Anglo-Saxon Kings ; with Remarks on the Ancient Limits of the Forest of Braden
At the commencement of the present session I had the honour of communicating to the Society some remarks on land limits, appended to a charter of King Athelstan to the Abbey of Malmesbury, the result of a personal survey of Kemble and Ewen, in the northern extremity of the county of Wilts. The success of my investigations on that occasion encouraged me to pursue my researches still further, and to attempt, during the recess, an identification of …
XII. An Account of Researches in Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries at Filkins, and at Broughton Poggs in Oxfordshire
During the last winter a mason, named John Farmer, while engaged in digging for stone in the village of Filkins, unexpectedly brought to light some Anglo-Saxon remains. Hearing by chance of this discovery, I proceeded to Filkins, and from the account I then received, I at once determined to apply for permission to undertake a systematic investigation of the spot. This was kindly granted by Mr. Robert Watts, the owner of the land, and on the 30th …
VII. On the Distaff and the Spindle, as the Insignia of the Female Sex in former times
It is the especial province of the antiquary to collect and arrange, under one view, the scattered notices to be found in old writers, and to illustrate those notices by comparing them with the monuments which time has spared, and the usages which yet linger among us. By such means, passages in history, which are, in themselves, purely incidental and subordinate, are made to bear their share in the illustration of past ages, and thus to afford oc…
XXIV. Report of Researches in a Cemetery of the Anglo-Saxon Period at Brighthampton, co. Oxford; in a Letter addressed to the Right Hon. the Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., President
While engaged in my recent perambulation of the forest of Wychwood, I paid a visit to Stanlake, near Witney, the scene of Mr. Stone's researches, communicated by that gentleman to the Society in the last session. On that occasion Mr. Stone informed me of the discovery of Anglo-Saxon remains in the adjoining village of Brighthampton. His account is as follows:— “On the 24th June, 1857, as some workmen were employed on the site of the old malthouse…
XXVI.— A View of the Ancient Limits of the Forest of Wychwood
The attention of the Council of the Society of Antiquaries having been directed to the recent Act of Parliament for the disafforesting of the royal forest of Wychwood, it was deemed right that some account of its ancient and recently existing state should be placed on record: I accordingly proceeded in the autumn of the past year to make a personal survey of this well-known yet but little explored district,—a district which in old times extended,…
XXII. An Account of the Investigation of some remarkable Circular Trenches, and the Discovery of an Ancient British Cemetery, at Stanlake, Oxon
In a communication by Mr. Stone, read to the Society of Antiquaries in the last session, the writer alluded to the appearance of a number of circles, heretofore looked upon by the country people as “Fairy Rings,” which had been observed by him among the corn. As the summer advanced, additional circles became visible, and finally the number which could be distinctly traced amounted to thirteen
IV.— “Furca et Fossa
In an age when the voice of philanthropy is raised against the extreme penalty of the law, an inquiry into the origin and practice of certain modes of capital punishment, now obsolete, but long known to our ancestors, may not be deemed unworthy the attention of this Society
VII.— Second Report of Researches in a Cemetery of the Anglo-Saxon period at Brighthampton, Oxon. Addressed to the Earl Stanhope, President
I have the honour to report to the Society of Antiquaries the result of renewed researches during the present autumn in the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Brighthampton. The reliques on the table are evidence that on the former occasion this ancient burialplace was but partially explored. I have now the gratification of exhibiting a series of ancient remains inferior in interest to none that research or accident has brought to light in this country
XXVIII.— Notes on the Origin and History of the Bayonet
In attempting to investigate the origin and history of the bayonet, we encounter, at the outset, considerable difficulty; even the derivation of its name is involved in obscurity. In the dictionary of Cotgrave, first published in 1611, we find, “ Bayonnette , a kind of small flat pocket-dagger, furnished with knives; or a great knife to hang at the girdle, like a dagger.” The same authority gives us “ Bayonnier , as arbalestier (an old word).” In…
XXIII. Report on Researches in an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Long Wittenham, Berkshire, in 1859
The Valley of the Thames had naturally many attractions for our Saxon forefathers. Their cattle found in its meadows abundant pasturage, its marshes were the resort of myriads of wild fowl, while the stream itself afforded the means of transit between the towns and villages on its banks, many of which retain in their names evidence of their Anglo-Saxon origin
IX.— Report on further Researches in an Anglo-Saxon Burial Ground at Long Wittenham, Berkshire, in the Summer of 1860
I beg leave to lay before the Society of Antiquaries a further report of my researches in the Anglo-Saxon Burial Ground at Long Wittenham, which were renewed in the summer and autumn of last year, with the kind co-operation of the Vicar, the Rev. J. C. Clutterbuck. These researches terminated earlier than I anticipated, and the result appears to show that the cemetery did not extend beyond the limits of the plot of ground called “the Free Acre,” …
VII.— Notes on the “Hwiting Treow” of the Anglo-Saxons
Tacitus, in his description of the ancient Germans, speaks of their reliance upon auguries and decisions by lot. The latter was performed with twigs cut from the branches of a fruit-bearing tree, and thrown upon a white garment:—“Sortium consuetudo simplex. Virgam frugiferæ arbori decisam in surculos amputant eosque notis quibusdam discretos super candidam vestem temere ac fortuito spargunt.”—Germ. 10
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