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- ↑ The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1859). Archaeologia aeliana UK Relating to antiquity – volume III. The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and printed by Y Thomas Pigg and Co., Clayton Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.