Album “Antiquities of Scilly - Photographs”

This material is held atSociety of Antiquaries of London

Scope and Content

Included within the album are loose papers of correspondence between The Earl of Onslow and the Secretary of Society of Antiquaries regarding the Earl donating a set of photographs of the prehistoric remains on Scilly. September 1937-April 1938 (3pp).

Album (52pp) contains photographs taken by Messrs Gibson firm of photographers on the Scilly Isles (specifically by Alexander Gibson (1857-1944)). Photographs of locations including:

Graves at Innisidgen, Normandy Downs, Bants Carn - St Mary’s

Menhirs, Telegraph, BantsCarn, Porthlaw, St Mary’s

Graves and Urns St Martins

Menhir & Graves, Gugh

Roman Altar, Tresco Abbey Gardens

Graves, Eastern Isles, Great Arthur

Graves at Samsan

Holed Stones at Bryher and Tresco Abbey Gardens

Other Finding Aids

https://collections.sal.org.uk/ons.01