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Drawings Roman milestone from Leicestershire

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.16

Artist/Designer/Maker

J.C. - Artist

Production date

1782

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Watercolour

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 334mm
Width: 237mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

View of a Roman Mile stone, in the garden of the Turnpike house, a mile and half from Leicester in the road to Malton, it was found about ten tears ago by some labourers who were mending the road (and the ground) about a mile distant.
drawn Oct 15. 1782 by J.C.

Inscription content

Exact representation of the letters (both with form and proportion)

References

Reference (free text)

William Bray, 'On the Leicester Roman Military Stone', Archaeologia 7 (1785): 84-5. Illustration (Engraving), pl. VI, opp. p. 85.