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Identifier: wiltshirearchaeo2518godd (find matches)
Title: The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Goddard, Edward Hungerford, 1854- Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Proceedings
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: (Devizes, Eng. : The Society)
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t the river name Anton is literary and con-ventional, and that the true name is Ann or Ande, appearing inAnn Savage, Amport, Abbots Ann, Little Ann, Andover (ford orpassage over the Ande). No doubt the name Ann is old, but somay Antona also be. I learn that at East Anton two Roman roadsintersect. Southampton is, I suppose, merely a corruption of SouthAnton, and the county of Hants is South-Anton-Shire, the h fromSouth remaining alone at the beginning of the word. In otherrespects Hants from South-Anton-Shire is exactly parallel to Wiltsfrom Wilton-Shire, and points to the antiquity and importance ofthe element Anton. If Antona is (like Dertona) an old Celticname for a town it might also be so for a river: and such I believeit to have been. The Rudge Cup (writes Prof. Hiibner) must be a votive cuprecording the road traversed by the thank-offerer from his home tothe healing spring, like the Vicarello cup. Those of the DeaCoventina at Procolitia are similar J. S. l&lh November, 1890.
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205 ©too ffifcjttt IS^ets. By W. Cunnington, F.G.S. HE vessel of which a photo-print appears on the oppositepage1 is a mazer, or drinking-cup, which was obtained bymyself from a cottage at Bromham, Wilts, about forty years ago. It was exhibited at the Inaugural Meeting of our Society in 1853,also at a Meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Dec.19th, 1889 ; and it has since been shown at the Tudor Exhibition,in Regent Street, 1890. A short description of it, by Mr. St. John Hope, appears in theProceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, London, 1889. The bowl is of maple wood, with moulded stem, and foot of itsown, and has a simple thin moulding just below the curved part ofthe cup. The band, or mounting, round the edge of the bowl is of silver,four-tenths of an inch deep inside, and six-tenths of an inch outside.It is plain, except a triple-edged fringe. On it is inscribed :— 14 Thy blessing 0 Lord, grante mee and mine:Thatt in life and death; wee maye be thine. A short di

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