The ruined cities of Mashonaland : being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891, with a chapter on the orientation and mensuration of the temple by R. M. W. Swan
The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland is an 1893 London and New York account by explorer J. Theodore Bent, with a chapter by surveyor R. M. W. Swan, recording digs and surveys of 1891 at stone ruins in Rhodesia for a general readership of armchair travellers and archaeologists. Its pictures are black-and-white photographic plates and engravings of carved pottery sherds, soapstone figures, a fragment of incised stone, and an iron battle-axe with arrowheads, offering a designer geometric chevron patterns and rough carved forms to borrow for textures and motifs.
