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A coalition of professional bodies, including the Council for British Archaeology and the Society of Antiquaries, is calling on Britain to follow Spain and France by signing the Unesco convention on the protection of underwater cultural heritage, which would effectively ban any recovery of shipwrecks for commercial purposes.
A £200m treasure hunt. Has Odyssey Marine found ‘La Vierge’? : Coin Collecting News 2008
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"Antiquaries," he said, "are apt to be both positive and polemical upon the very points which are least susceptible of proof, and which are least valuable if the truth could be ascertained; and which therefore we would gladly have seen handled with more diffidence and better temper in proportion to their uncertainty." [
Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Margaret Ball
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Buchan, David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan (1742 – 1829): the founder of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, admirer of the work of James Thomson and
Index of People 2009
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A member of the Society of Antiquaries, Evans published locodescriptive as well as religious works; a friend of Bloomfield's at Worthing, of which town he published a description — Picture of Worthing.
Index of People 2009
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Society of Antiquaries of London Dover Castle in Kent, built by Henry II between 1180 and 1185.
The House Impregnable Stephen Brumwell 2011
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Note 18: The Inventory of King Henry VIII, (Society of Antiquaries of London, 1998), vol. 1, p. x back
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This was a little more than I needed to know but, fortunately for the happy celebrants last night, the 'necessaries' of the Antiquaries A D-F is excellent on lavatorial nomenclature owed nothing to the pleasures of Eastern Europe.
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This was a little more than I needed to know but, fortunately for the happy celebrants last night, the 'necessaries' of the Antiquaries A D-F is excellent on lavatorial nomenclature owed nothing to the pleasures of Eastern Europe.
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I, Arlene Eakle, professional genealogist and PhD in English History, know that the Antiquaries believed Sion was established as early as 1099, and connected to the Knights Templars with the same grandmaster serving both.
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These early genealogists, for that is what the Antiquaries were, also knew that Sion supported the Merovingian royal lineage, still working closely with and in some enterprises, still connected to the Knights Templars.
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