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Drawings Roman mortarium from Barking, Greater London

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.113

Artist/Designer/Maker

Underwood, T R - Artist

Production date

1795
1809

Material

Paper
Brush
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 325mm
Width: 242mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Diameter 12 3/8
Depth 3½
Roman Patera dug up in August 1796 [sic. The correct date of escavation is August 1795] out of the earth in Great Tower Street at the top of Beer Lane, a little below Barking Church, in a bed of fine Gravel, 10 feet below the surface of the ground. Vide App. Archæol. Vol. XII. p 413.

Inscription content

T.R. Underwood delt. Dec. 1795.

Inscription content

Fig. 2. p. 413.

Inscription content

Pl. LI. p. 408.

References

Reference (free text)

Archaeologia 12 (1809): 413. Illustration (Engraving), figs. 2 and 3, pl. LI, opp. p. 409.