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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. | | | Description | The Bridestones were excavated and partially restored in 1936-37 by Prof. H.J. Fleure of Manchester University. The excavation was documented by Margaret Dunlop MA in the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarion Soc. Vol 53.
During the excavation, Mr. G. Ech Roger Jr. of Bridestones House took a series of pictures that to date it is thought have not been published. The glass negatives are now owned by historian Doug Pickford and it is with his permission that they are now presented. |
| Posted Comments: rldixon (2011-04-15) | not the best photographic quality but a fantastic piece of historical photography
great to see these monuments as they were in the past and also to see the excavation work in progress | guile (2011-04-15) | Amazing set of pictures. Thank you for sharing. | astronomer (2011-04-16) | The scans from the original quarter plate glass negatives are 38Mb, 1200 pixels/inch. |
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