Scope and Contents Inscribed on the v. of front board, 'A. J. B. Wace. British School. Athens 1003. Notebook 6'. Notes on the topography of Alexandria, summarising Strabo, with 2 hand drawn copies of plans of the city pasted in at f.1r and f.2r. Notes on bibliographical references of comments by authors in antiquity of sites in Skiathos and Skopelos, Towns of Magnetes (Thessalian Magnesia). Also, Wace's own notes on Byzantine ruins, Modern villages of Thessaly, lists of individuals of note...

Scope and Contents Notes made on a journey Wace took with van Buren in April 1905, through the Magnesian peninsula of Thessaly, Greece and on to the islands of Skiathos and Skopelos in the Northern Sporades. In Magnesia he made notes on archaeological, topographical and architectural features, including Byzantine churches, encountered at Demetrias, Iolcus-Episkope [modern Volos], Pagasae, Dimini, Milies, Neleia, Korope, Neochori, Argelaste (Leiphokastro) and Olizon. On Skopelos, in addition to noting...

Scope and Contents 8 leaves of a handwritten report, authored it is presumed by Maurice Scott Thompson, on the prehistoric pottery excavated by himself and Wace (and Droop) in Thessaly, Greece, between 1908-1910. The sub headings of the report, entitled 'Description of the Wares', are: A Unornamented Wares / I Red and Ochre Vases, II. Imitation Urfirniss, III. Late grey ware, IV. True Urfurniss, V. Fine ochre wares, VI. Early red and polished ware, VII. Black polished ware, B Incised Wares/...

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Thessaly, Macedonia and Thrace pottery surveys 1959-1963 (working notes, hand drawn maps and site plans and pottery drawings); DPhil thesis; Mycenae pre-Mycenaean pottery survey; Greek, British and Austrian maps of Greece and the Balkans; published reference books by other authors on topics central to D. H. French's research

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Images of the archaeological sites of Goritsa and Demetrias in the environs of the town of Volos in Thessaly, Greece. Featuring several ancient fortification walls, landscape and the coastline below the high vantage point.

Scope and Contents 50 halfplate negatives. The Index as filled in by AJBW only goes up to and includes Item 39. Many negatives removed long before accession to the Faculty Archives, as part of an 'HS Series', by AJBW. Includes views of Pergamon in western Asia Minor (Turkey), the island of Delos, Geraki and Mistras in Lakonia, classical sculpture in museum collections in Rome and Turin, pottery in Thessaly, the Acropolis of Athens, Lykabettos, the British School at Athens Hostel and finally, a...

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37 halfplate negatives of Theotokou in Thessaly, objects in Sparta Museum in Lakonia, the Cycladic islands of Amorgos, Anafi, Antiparos, Folegandros, Naxos, Sikinos, Kimolos, the Dodekanese islands of Astypalaia, Kalymnos, Leros, Nisyros, Patmos, Telos and also the eastern Aegean island of Samos. At the album's end are 5 views of the British School at Athens.

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52 halfplate negatives of museum objects in Sparta Museum, sites in Lakonia (Gerki, Monemvasia), Volos and its environs in Thessaly and the island of Skopelos. Some images of classical scuplture from other European museum collections (mainly Berlin).

Scope and Contents Sub titled 'Detailing some futile endeavours to make great discoveries in Thessaly'. Preceded by a note on local dialect, Excavation diary for Halos, from 23 April to 4 May, with sketch plans with levels, tables of levels measurements. Notes on a surface pottery field survey around Zerelia and Tsangli, including notes on inscriptions, to the end of May. Followed, at the back, by notes on modern Greek vocabulary and observations of contemporary Greek daily life. Includes...

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Vassits informs Wace of his recent excavations at Vinča: he attempts to establish a chronology of that culture relative to Greece from the Neolithic to the first century BCE and offers conclusions about the pottery’s connection to Thessaly in Greece. He records the findings of other archaeologists that link this same culture to Crete and Bulgaria and hopes to collaborate with Wace in Macedonia.

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57 dawings of small finds and archaeological plans used as illustrations and plates in Prehistoric Thessaly.
Items 1 to 22 are watercolours which were mostly reproduced in colour, items 23 to 57 are black ink line drawings of small finds and two archaeological plans.
1 hand drawn, in ink with ink wash, sketch map of North-Eastern Greece (Fig. 1)
AJBW annotated the drawings in pencil with excavation or museum numbers and printing directions.

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Annotated complete set of proofs for Prehistoric Thessaly. Loose leaves in gatherings, with handwritten corrections in ink made by AJBW.
Small label from the original acidic cardboard packaging, handwritten in ink by AJBW 'Prehistoric Thessaly Proofs (Page)'.

Scope and Contents Sub titled 'Detailing some futile endeavours to make great discoveries in Thessaly'. Excavation diary, sketch plans with levels, tables of levels measurements. Tsangli Magoula (mound) from 21 March to 11 April. Magoula of Rachmani 14 Apr to 26 April Followed by notes on inscriptions, on modern Greek vocabulary and observations of contemporary Greek daily life. Includes wage tallies and record of expenses at the back. 1 insert of a hand-drawn topographical map of...

Scope and Contents Slip of paper with Wace's handwritten phrase 'Thessalika' denoting the thematic content of this file from its creation by AJBW. Offprint of JHS vol.26, 'The Topography of Pelion and Magnesia' by Alan Wace, annotated by AJBW at p. 145 offprint by A. M. Woodward, 'Greek Inscriptions from Thessaly', annotated at p. 160 Two maps of Greece, the colour printed "Graecia (Northern Sheet)', London: John Murray and a hand traced and hand inked map by AJBW of Thessaly with key...

Scope and Contents 29 positive photographic prints in total of 27 views of landscape, coastline, ancient fortification walls and archaeological ruins, villages and villagers - often dressed as mummers (actors). 2 negative photographic prints for which no positive print exists. Together with an envelope titled and dated by AJBW, 'Thessaly, Jan-Feb1910'. AJBW wrote a title in pencil on the back for 16 of the prints, if he doubted his attribution of place, he included a question mark to denote his...

Scope and Contents 22 positive photographic prints of 11 views of landscape, ancient walls, a monastery, contemporary wattle huts of reeds and archaeological mounds (tells) in Thessaly, Greece. (9 images have two prints each, Item 4 is a single print, Item 10 has 3 prints). An envelope addressed to A. J. B. Wace at Leslie Lodge, Hall Place, St Albans, inscribed 'Photographs' and franked 1909 from Greece, has an additional annotation in pencil by AJBW, 'Thessaly 1909'. 9 negatives correspond to the...

Scope and Contents Album of photographs of archaeological sites, landscape and architectural features, each photograph titled in pencil on the cardboard mount by AJBW. Includes images from Lakonia (Arkasades, Xerokambi, Geraki, Mari, Molai, Epidaurus Limera, Monemvasia, Dhaskalio, Zarax), Thessaly (the Magnesian peninsula including Demetrias/Iolkos, Pagasae, Dimini, Olizon), islands in the Sporades archipelago (Skopelos, Skiathos), Arkadia (Leonidi) and Pergamon in Asia Minor (western Turkey). 93...

Scope and Contents Album of photographs of archaeological sites, laandscape and architectural features in Lakonia (Arkasades, Xerokambi, Geraki, Mari, Molai, Epidaurus Limera, Monemvasia, Dhaskalio, Zarax), Thessaly (the Magnesian peninsula including Demetrias/Iolkos/Volos, Pagasae, Dimini, Olizon) islands in the Sporades archipelago (Skopelos, Skiathos), Arkadia (Leonidi) and Pergamon in Asia Minor (western Turkey). A. J. B. Wace handwrote in pencil a title beneath the majority of the photographs, which are...

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4 photographs of views of Meteora in northern Greece. The high quality of the images and their perspective, taken from the most advantageous location possible to frame the view perfectly, suggests that these these prints were professionally taken and sold as souvenirs, which Wace then bought. The photography is very different to Wace's usual, more modest in scope, photographs that he took himself.

Scope and Contents 8 photographs of views of landscape, coastline, ancient fortification walls, a town (Pharsala), and a cheerful man with a dead cockerel. 5 half plate negatives of archaeological excavation, including cist graves and an assembly of axes, pertain specifically to Zerelia. AJBW wrote a title in pencil on the back for 6 of the prints, if he doubted his attribution of place, he included a question mark to denote his uncertainty. For this file, any title of an image within square brackets...