Garden antiquities

2272. Antiquities are nearly allied to ruins, but differ from them in being of some value as objects, independently of locality. They may be valuable from their great age, as druidical; from historical traditions connected with them, as stones indicating the site of a battle, the cross-stone of an ancient town, &c.; or from the excellence of the workmanship or the material, as in the fragments of Grecian and Roman sculpture and architecture. This class of decorations is very common in Italy, and especially near Rome and Naples. Viewed as parts of landscape, almost every thing depends on their union with the surrounding scenery.