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Drawings Bronze Age urn from Colney, Norfolk

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.291

Artist/Designer/Maker

Gibson, William, Rev - Attributed to

Production date

1799
1808

Material

paper
pencil

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 190mm
Width: 232mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Archæologia XIV. p. 1.
Burial Urn. Found at Colney near Norwich. April 6th 1799.

Inscription content

No. 3

References

Reference (free text)

William Gibson, 'Account of a Burial Urn, Discovered at Colney, in Norfolk', Archaeologia 14 (1808): 1-6. Illustration (Engraving), pl. I, opp. p. 7. Communication dated 17 May 1799, from William Gibson, describing the urn, which was found in excavating gravel for the turnpike road.

Reference (free text)

Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Norfolk and the City of Norwich, Communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britiain and Ireland, Held at Norwich, July, 1847 (London: Archaeological Institute, 1851), p. xxv.