'Non-Stonehenge correspondence'
Reference code
GOW/03/10
Title
'Non-Stonehenge correspondence'
Date
1900-1921
Level of description
file
Extent and format
1 folder
Scope and content
1. Notes relating to Gowland's contribution to the report of the excavations at Silchester, 1900:
- a proof page, numbered '17-18' for Archaeologia 57 (1900) [published as pp 245-46], where W St John Hope, the author of the report, thanks Gowland for information on the metal of a brass rosette and stud found in Insula XXIII. 1 sheet
- Notes on pewter and brass, referring to Appleshaw, Silchester and Japanese material. 2 sheets.
2. 1906, 10 April. Letter from EO Courtman to Gowland, giving figures for the analysis of the bronze figure, 'from Mr Sandars' [words added by Gowland]. 1 sheet.
3. 1910, 4 March. Letter from Mill Stephenson to Gowland, enclosing two analyses of brasses, one 'given to me by Gawthorpe', one from Haines, Manual of [Monumental] Brasses. The analyses are on a separate sheet. 2 sheets.
- Attached: note by Gowland, dated January 1910, with analyses of two brasses at Tattershall, Lincolnshire. 1 sheet.
4. 1912, 24 August. Letter, still in envelope, from Mill Stephenson to Gowland, apologising for troubling him again, with some 'scrapings' from the back of a brass dated 1577, apparently at Ewell, Surrey; the scrapings are enclosed, in a smaller envelope.
- note by Gowland, giving the analysis of the material. 1 sheet.
5. 1913-1914. Correspondence between Alexander Curle, Director of the National Museum of Scotland, and Gowland, concerning a bronze item found at the mouth of the River Urr, Kirkcudbrightshire:
- 1913, 6 October. Letter from Curle to Gowland, asking advice and sending a sample of the bronze; draft reply from Gowland on the back. 1 sheet.
- 1914, 3 January. Letter from Curle to Gowland, repeating request for advice. 1 sheet.
- notes on the composition of the sample, which is wrapped in the paper.
6. 1921. Correspondence between RA Smith, British Museum, and Gowland:
- 1921, 14 June. Letter from Smith to Gowland, concerning an 'iron socket'. 1 sheet.
- 1921, 17 June. Letter from Smith to Gowland, relating to an 'iron fragment' found 'apparently' in an early British cremation burial. 1 sheet,
- 1921, 21 June. Draft/copy, not in Gowland's hand, to Smith, concerning two items, one bronze, the other iron. 1 sheet.
7. 1921, 21 October. Letter (typescript, carbon copy) from Edward Wooler, Darlington, to Gowland, enclosing a photograph of 'a bronze crucible or ladle' found on Wolsingham South Moor [Durham] by a friend hunting for butterflies; requests Gowland's observations on the object. 1 sheet.
- Photographic print, apparently enclosed with the letter; no annotations. This is the same as the print at GOW/03/01: 'C. Roman Iron (x 120 diameters) Another portion of same specimen showing crack adjoining slag.'
- 1921, 26 October. Gowland's draft reply on a separate sheet, noting that without a thorough examination of the object itself, his observations would be of little value. 1 sheet.
8. Correspondence on the Llynfawr Hoard.
- Typescript of piece by REM [Mortimer] Wheeler 'The Llynfawr Hoard'. 4 sheets.
Published in Archaeologia 71 (1921), pp 133-36.
- 1921, 26 October. Draft letter from Gowland to 'Dr W', concerning two of the finds, a sickle and a spear-head, and whether or not they were 'coated' with bronze. 1 sheet.
9. 'Analysis of spoons, from William Price': notes from E A Wraight, further annotated by Gowland. Undated. 2 sheets.
- a proof page, numbered '17-18' for Archaeologia 57 (1900) [published as pp 245-46], where W St John Hope, the author of the report, thanks Gowland for information on the metal of a brass rosette and stud found in Insula XXIII. 1 sheet
- Notes on pewter and brass, referring to Appleshaw, Silchester and Japanese material. 2 sheets.
2. 1906, 10 April. Letter from EO Courtman to Gowland, giving figures for the analysis of the bronze figure, 'from Mr Sandars' [words added by Gowland]. 1 sheet.
3. 1910, 4 March. Letter from Mill Stephenson to Gowland, enclosing two analyses of brasses, one 'given to me by Gawthorpe', one from Haines, Manual of [Monumental] Brasses. The analyses are on a separate sheet. 2 sheets.
- Attached: note by Gowland, dated January 1910, with analyses of two brasses at Tattershall, Lincolnshire. 1 sheet.
4. 1912, 24 August. Letter, still in envelope, from Mill Stephenson to Gowland, apologising for troubling him again, with some 'scrapings' from the back of a brass dated 1577, apparently at Ewell, Surrey; the scrapings are enclosed, in a smaller envelope.
- note by Gowland, giving the analysis of the material. 1 sheet.
5. 1913-1914. Correspondence between Alexander Curle, Director of the National Museum of Scotland, and Gowland, concerning a bronze item found at the mouth of the River Urr, Kirkcudbrightshire:
- 1913, 6 October. Letter from Curle to Gowland, asking advice and sending a sample of the bronze; draft reply from Gowland on the back. 1 sheet.
- 1914, 3 January. Letter from Curle to Gowland, repeating request for advice. 1 sheet.
- notes on the composition of the sample, which is wrapped in the paper.
6. 1921. Correspondence between RA Smith, British Museum, and Gowland:
- 1921, 14 June. Letter from Smith to Gowland, concerning an 'iron socket'. 1 sheet.
- 1921, 17 June. Letter from Smith to Gowland, relating to an 'iron fragment' found 'apparently' in an early British cremation burial. 1 sheet,
- 1921, 21 June. Draft/copy, not in Gowland's hand, to Smith, concerning two items, one bronze, the other iron. 1 sheet.
7. 1921, 21 October. Letter (typescript, carbon copy) from Edward Wooler, Darlington, to Gowland, enclosing a photograph of 'a bronze crucible or ladle' found on Wolsingham South Moor [Durham] by a friend hunting for butterflies; requests Gowland's observations on the object. 1 sheet.
- Photographic print, apparently enclosed with the letter; no annotations. This is the same as the print at GOW/03/01: 'C. Roman Iron (x 120 diameters) Another portion of same specimen showing crack adjoining slag.'
- 1921, 26 October. Gowland's draft reply on a separate sheet, noting that without a thorough examination of the object itself, his observations would be of little value. 1 sheet.
8. Correspondence on the Llynfawr Hoard.
- Typescript of piece by REM [Mortimer] Wheeler 'The Llynfawr Hoard'. 4 sheets.
Published in Archaeologia 71 (1921), pp 133-36.
- 1921, 26 October. Draft letter from Gowland to 'Dr W', concerning two of the finds, a sickle and a spear-head, and whether or not they were 'coated' with bronze. 1 sheet.
9. 'Analysis of spoons, from William Price': notes from E A Wraight, further annotated by Gowland. Undated. 2 sheets.