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Reports on excavations at Kent's Cavern by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/222

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Reports on excavations at Kent's Cavern by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian

Date(s): 1865-1880

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Pengelly | William | 1812-1894 | teacher
Vivian | Edward | fl 1865-1880 | superintendent of exploration at Kent's Cavern

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

William Pengelly FRS (1812-1894) and Edward Vivian were superintendents of exploration at Kent's Cavern near Torquay in Devon.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Reports by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian produced for the Kent's Cavern Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, with some supporting correspondence.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Half-bound in red leather, red cloth boards. Spine tooled in gold: "Kent's Cavern Reports. W. Pengelly, F.R.S. 1865-1880.' Bookplate of John Evans.

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Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Archaeological excavations | Archaeology
Caves | Land forms | Topography | Geomorphology

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Devon | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe