Punch,  17 (1849), 2.

Witty Antics and Antiquities

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Archaeology, Exploration


    Reports on archaeologists' exhaustion of areas to explore. Relates that one of the 'Archaelogians' has 'taken refuge' in nursery rhymes. Suggests that a loftier theme for archaeology is the '"shoe" lived in by the "old woman" of antiquity' and a 'survey of the ground on which it was supposed to have stood'. Also suggests studying the physiology of the 'house of nursery lore' and the 'fracture of Jack's crown'.



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