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Drawings Roman iron ploughshare from Great Witcombe, Glos.

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.294

Artist/Designer/Maker

Way, Albert - Attributed To

Production date

Mid 19th century

Material

Paper
Pencil
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 116mm
Width: 472mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Iron ploughshare. Weight 7½ lbs, found in Roman Villa Witcombe Park, Glous. 1818
presented to B.Mus by Sir William Hickes
Archæologia XIX. 183.

References

Reference (free text)

Samuel Lysons, 'Account of the Remains of a Roman Villa Discovered in the Parish of Great Witcombe, in the County of Gloucester', Archaeologia 19 (1821): 178-83.

Reference (free text)

E M Clifford, 'The Roman Villa, Witcombe, Gloucestershire', Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 73 (1954): 5-69.