Excerpt from The Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1883, Vol. 39: Established 1843, for the Encouragement and Prosecution of Researches Into the Arts and Monuments of the Early and Middle Ages The vestiges of the Celtic races have been examined in their elegant stone crosses and fine art metal-work; the intelligence of the Saxons in their literary remains, as at Worcester and Exeter, - their military arts and social refinement, as at Stowting and Taplow; and, to pass rapidly onward, there is hardly a single ramification of the feeling and cultus of the English middle ages which has not been illustrated in one way or another, and more or less directly, in the pages which are now laid before the reader in hope that he may read them aright, and so gather instruction and enlightenment from them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.