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Micah Salt, the Glossary

Micah Salt (c. 1847 – 22 January 1915) was a tailor and amateur archaeologist from Buxton in Derbyshire.^[1]

29 relations: Alstonefield, Anglo-Saxons, Aquae Arnemetiae, Bronze Age, Buxton, Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Buxton Town Hall, Chambered cairn, Cist, Deep Dale, Derbyshire, Dove Holes, Eyam, Five Wells, Grin Low, Hollinsclough, Llewellynn Jewitt, Neolithic, Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton, Roman Empire, Romano-British culture, Solomon's Temple, Buxton, Staffordshire, Taddington Moor, Terra sigillata, The Bull Ring, Thomas Bateman (antiquary), Verulamium, William Boyd Dawkins.
People from Buxton

Alstonefield

Alstonefield (alternative spelling: Alstonfield) is a village and civil parish in the Peak District National Park and the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England about north of Ashbourne, east of Leek and south of Buxton.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Aquae Arnemetiae

Aquae Arnemetiae was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Buxton

Buxton is a spa town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England.

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Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery focuses its collection on history, geology and archaeology primarily from the Peak District and Derbyshire.

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Buxton Town Hall

Buxton Town Hall was opened in 1889 on the Market Place in Buxton, Derbyshire, England.

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Chambered cairn

A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable (usually stone) chamber around and over which a cairn of stones was constructed.

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Cist

In archeology, a cist (also kist; from κίστη, Middle Welsh Kist or Germanic Kiste) or cist grave is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead.

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Deep Dale

Deep Dale is a short steep-sided gorge near Buxton, Derbyshire, in the Peak District of England.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Dove Holes

Dove Holes is a village in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England.

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Eyam

Eyam is an English village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales that lies within the Peak District National Park.

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Five Wells

Five Wells is a Neolithic chambered tomb between the villages of Chelmorton and Taddington on Taddington Moor in the Derbyshire Peak District in England.

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Grin Low

Grin Low is a hill overlooking Buxton in Derbyshire, in the Peak District.

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Hollinsclough

Hollinsclough is a small rural village in the county of Staffordshire in the English Midlands.

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Llewellynn Jewitt

Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (or Llewellyn) (24 November 1816 – 5 June 1886) was a British illustrator, engraver, natural scientist and author of The Ceramic Art of Great Britain (1878). Micah Salt and Llewellynn Jewitt are English archaeologists.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton

The Pavilion Arts Centre was opened in 1889 as the new Entertainment Stage theatre on St John's Road in Buxton, Derbyshire, England.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Romano-British culture

The Romano-British culture arose in Britain under the Roman Empire following the Roman conquest in AD 43 and the creation of the province of Britannia.

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Solomon's Temple, Buxton

Solomon's Temple, also known as Grinlow Tower, is a Victorian folly on the summit of Grin Low hill, near the spa town of Buxton in the Derbyshire Peak District.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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Taddington Moor

Taddington Moor is a limestone hill between the villages of Taddington, Flagg and Chelmorton in the Derbyshire Peak District.

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Terra sigillata

Terra sigillata is a term with at least three distinct meanings: as a description of medieval medicinal earth; in archaeology, as a general term for some of the fine red Ancient Roman pottery with glossy surface slips made in specific areas of the Roman Empire; and more recently, as a description of a contemporary studio pottery technique supposedly inspired by ancient pottery.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_Salt