Entries for the tag ‘Mortimer, John Robert (1825-1911)’
Corn-merchant and archaeologist, excavated many barrows in the Yorkshire Wolds, including Duggleby Howe, founder of a pioneering museum of archaeology at Driffield. 
- 19 March 1866: Corn-merchant J.R. Mortimer of Driffield opens a prehistoric burial mound on the Wolds and suggests a link to ancient Greek descriptions of Balearic rites
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