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Itinerarium curiosum (centuria II)

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An illustrated antiquarian travelogue documenting earthworks, Roman camps, stone circles, and other remarkable curiosities encountered on tours through Britain. It combines site descriptions, measured plans, engraved plates, and maps with interpretive commentary that evaluates monuments in Roman and pre‑Roman contexts. The volume reproduces a medieval itinerary with annotations and gathers essays, field notes, and drawings intended for a larger study of ancient remains. Practical itineraries, indices, and geographic notes accompany the observations, producing a blend of topographical description, visual documentation, and antiquarian argument aimed at recording and explaining visible traces of the past.

THAT Dr. Stukeley had altered the plan of his intended History of the antient Celts, &c. mentioned in the Preface of the former part of this work, plainly appears by his publishing Stonehenge and Abury separately: but, as many of the Plates he left unpublished were undoubtedly intended for that Work, and others for a Second Volume of the Itinerarium, neither of which were ever completed; the Editor hopes it will give pleasure to the Learned to see those Plates, together with such of his Tracts as relate to them, collected into one Volume, and that they will be found not altogether unworthy of their attention;—sensible however that the many defects which must unavoidably happen in publishing a Posthumous Collection from loose papers, and notes carelessly thrown together, will stand in need of their candid indulgence.

The Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester, together with Dr. Stukeley’s Account of, and Observations upon it, were thought by some Friends of the Doctor a very proper addition. It is a tract truly valuable for the new light it has thrown on the study of British Antiquities, and being out of print is now become very scarce.

It may be expected that some account should in this place be given of the Author, and his Works. A Catalogue of those which have appeared in print we subjoin; and for his Life we refer the reader to Mr. Masters’s History of Benet College, Cambridge, printed in quarto, 1753; adding only, that he died March 3d, 1765, in his 78th year, and was buried in the church-yard of East-Ham in Essex, having ordered by his will that no memorial of him should be erected there.

A CATALOGUE of Dr. STUKELEY’s Printed WORKS.
4to. An Account of Arthur’s Oon and the Roman Vallum in Scotland 1720
Fol. Lecture on the Spleen 1722
Fol. Itinerarium Curiosum 1724
12mo. A Treatise on the Cause and Cure of the Gout 1734
4to. An Explanation of a Silver Plate found at Risley in Derbyshire 1736
4to. Palæographia Sacra, No. 1. or Discourses on the Monuments of Antiquity that relate to Sacred History 1736
Fol. Stonehenge, a Temple restored to the British Druids 1740
4to. A Sermon preached before the House of Commons, 30 Jan. 1741 1741
Fol. Abury, a Temple restored to the British Druids 1743
4to. Palæographia Britannica, No. 1. or Discourses on Monuments of Antiquity that relate to British History 1743
4to. Palæographia Britannica, No. 2. 1746
  A Philosophic Hymn on Easter-Day 1748
  Verses on the Death of the Duke of Montagu 1749
4to. A Sermon before the College of Physicians, 20 Sept. 1750
4to. Palæographia Britannica, No. 3. 1751
  An Account of Lesnes Abbey, read before the Antiquarian Society, 12 April, 1753, and published in the Archæologia  
  An Account of the Eclipse predicted by Thales, published in Phil. Trans. Vol. 48  
  An Account of the Sanctuary at Westminster, published in the Archæologia 1755
12mo. The Philosophy of Earthquakes, 2 parts 1755
4to. Palæographia Britannica, No. 3.  
4to. Medallic History of Carausius, Emperor in Britain, part 1. 1757
4to. Medallic History of Carausius, part 2. 1759
4to. Palæographia Sacra, No. 2. 1763
4to. A Letter from Dr. Stukeley to Mr. Macpherson on his publication of Fingal and Temora, with a Print of Cathmor’s Shield 1763
  Several Moral Papers in the Inspector.  

He was also engaged, at the time of his death, in a work entitled the Medallic History of the antient Kings of Britain; and had engraved 23 Plates of their Coins, which were published by his Executor; but the Manuscript was too imperfect to be given to the Public.


61·2⁠d. CAESAR’S Camp called the Brill at PANCRAS. Stukely desig. dec 1758