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2 unusual facts about Hamlet Watling


Hamlet Watling

He compiled 12 volumes of Suffolk heraldry and genealogy in MS. He excavated on Roman sites in Suffolk during the 1860s and 1870s, and made various investigations of the Antonine Itinerary in the county.

From c1867 to 1908 he wrote weekly columns for the Suffolk Chronicle and East Anglian Daily Times newspapers, in which he explained the iconography of church paintings to a wide readership and explored the Anglo-Saxon history of Suffolk.



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