Drawings Roman inscription from Tynemouth Castle
Object number
LDSAL2020.15.25
Artist/Designer/Maker
Durnford, Elias, Major - Attributed to
Production date
1783
1787
1787
Material
paper
ink
Brush
ink
Brush
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 347mm
Width: 304mm
Width: 304mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
An exact reduced Copy, one half the size of the Original Stone taken by Lieutenant Governor Dunford [sic] Engineers and found by Him in digging up some of the hidden Foundations near the Old Monastery within Tynemouth Castle Northumberland 12th June 1783.
Archæol. Vol. VIII. 326.
Archæol. Vol. VIII. 326.
Inscription content
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References
Reference (free text)
John Brand, 'Explanation of the Inscriptions on a Roman Altar and Tablet Found at Tinmouth [sic] Castle in Northumberland, A.D.1783', Archaeologia 8 (1787): 326-8.
Illustration (Engraving), fig. 4, pl. XXI, opp. p. 326.
Reference (free text)
Albert Way, Catalogue of Antiquities, Coins, Pictures, and Miscellaneous Curiosities, in the Possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1847 (London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1847), p. 8, no. 28.
Reference (free text)
John Hodgson, History of Northumberland 7 vols. (Newcastle: John Hodgson, 1820), pt. 2, vol. 3: 169.
Reference (free text)
William Camden, Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, from the Earliest Antiquity 2nd ed, 4 vols. (London: John Stockdale, 1806), 3: 514.
Illustration (Engraving), fig. 15, pl. XXXV, opp. p. 509.