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moss wrote:
Well I would like the Reverend Skinner's chest of works to transcribe which went to the British Museum a couple of years ago!
Does LS know you've got your eye on someone else's chest Moss :-)

Haha............ three iron bound chests of our nineteenth century vicar, who was a most prolific recorder of the prehistory round my part of Somerset then.

http://chert.org.uk/CHERT-Skinner%20Index%20to%20drawings.pdf

Part of his will....

"I bequeath all the books connected with this Index No 1 and No 2 to the British Museum for my countrymens benefit. May they know how to value such a territory as this as it ought to be valued and unite in maintaining its ancient institutions inviolate till the last. England I love thee still.
John Skinner"

Good words to end on, no 'intellectual property' rights mentioned ;)