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Borough of Thamesdown (51-2); and Frank Hawtin (55). 'The Archaeology of the West Cumberland Coal Trade', written by Isaac Fletcher and published in the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Societythe title is significant -in 1878. Fletcher was an astronomer and Fellow of the Royal Society, that is, a person with an established reputation as a scientist. To make a careful study of the Cumberland coal industry was a hobby activity for him, the kind of thing that any civilised man, no matter what his profession, might reasonably want to do. To him 'archaeology' meant no more or less than the study of the past which was based on the observation of its tangible remains. In his paper he therefore referred as easily and naturally to 'the archaeology of the steam 'Antiquity (now usually pl.; formerly sing. or collect.) Remains or monu- ments of antiquity; ancient relics.' 'Archaeology 1. Ancient history generally; systematic description or study of antiquities. 2. The scientific study of the remains and monuments of the prehistoric period.' The examples given as illustrations of usage indicate that, in the view of the editors, attention has to be p

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Author

Kenneth Hudson (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349043132

Category

social science

Subjects

History, Science, Social History

Updated

2026-03-25