Martin Carver, Sutton Hoo: a Seventh-Century Princely Burial Ground and its Context. (London: British Museum Press, 2005, 576 pp., ISBN 0 7141 2322 6 [Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London 69])

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-310
Author(s):  
Martin Rundkvist
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Research Committee

VI.—St. Manchan's Shrine

Archaeologia ◽  
1937 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 105-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. D. Kendrick ◽  
Elizabeth Senior
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
The Church

Very little is known about St. Manchan. He died of the plague in 664, composed a poem of which two lines survive, and may have been the author of a commentary, parts of which are quoted in an early twelfth-century manuscript (British Museum, Harley 1802). But though various attempts were made to establish his genealogy, there were other saints of the same name, so that the references to him are sadly confused, and all that is certain is that he lived in the first half of the seventh century, and gave his name to the place now called after him Lemanaghan, i.e., Manchan's grey land (Manchan's church). This was a small monastery in co. Offaly that has little recorded history and can never have been a house of much importance. In 1531 it was under the charge of the prior of the neighbouring monastery of Gallen, and by the beginning of the seventeenth century it was almost unknown, being described at that time as situated in the middle of an impassable bog. Its chief treasure, the shrine, attracted no notice from the outside world; but it was still preserved there, and there is a record of its existence in the church at Lemanaghan about 1630.

Three new African species of the genus Chrysops (Family Tabanidæ)

1911 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest E. Austen
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
African Species ◽  
Entomological Research

The following paper is the result of the study of material recently received by the Entomological Research Committee, by which the types of two of the species described below have been presented to the British Museum (Natural History): the type of Chrysops centurionis has been handed over to the National Collection by its discoverer, Captain A. D. Fraser, R.A.M.C.

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