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FIG
11.
Detail of 'Rhossili Bay' by Edward Duncan, a prolific and nationally known nineteenth-century painter of
the Gower scene. (Peter R. Douglas-Jones)
the author for Figures
FIG
12.
A field meeting of the Swansea Scientific Society in the 1890s, probably at Oxwich. Note the horse-bus and
the thatched roofs of the cottages. (Swansea Museum)
the author for Figures
There is a record of a large party going by horse-drawn brake to Rhossili in June 1890. In 1893 Colonel
Morgan, a leading member of the Scientific Society, led a team which excavated a prehistoric tomb on
PenmaenBurrows.Numerouswomenwereinvolvedandasearlyas1889therewere18femalemembers.
