This has a gallery and contains a collection of items of antiquarianism. It is a work of chorography&colon; a study that relates landscape, geography, antiquarianism, and history. Archaeology later concerned itself with the antiquarianism movement. Despite this, Pinkerton is still an important figure in the history of British antiquarianism. The author's turn to the past is not, however, a sign of idle antiquarianism. Chinese archaeology has been practiced since the Song dynasty (960-1279) with early practices of antiquarianism. Ellis's first work of literary antiquarianism was his "Specimens of the Early English Poets" (1790).