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Drawings Roman mosaic from Basildon, West Berkshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.296

Artist/Designer/Maker

Dean & Son - Lithographer

Production date

1839

Material

Paper
Printer's Ink
Ink

Technique

Colour Lithography
Lithography

Dimensions

Height: 260mm
Width: 387mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Dean & Son, 31 Ludgate Hill.
PLAN OF A ROMAN PAVEMENT,
found in excavating
for the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, through
BASILDON, BERKS, in the Year 1839.

Inscription content

The Society of Antiquaries of London
From C. Roach Smith, Esq.
Collectanea Antiqua, Vol. I. Pl. 24.

Inscription content

See Archæologia XXVIII. 447-450

References

Reference (free text)

'Roman Pavements Discovered at Basildon, in Berkshire', Archaeologia 28 (1840): 447-50.

Reference (free text)

Charles Roach Smith, Collectanea Antiqua 7 vols. (London: J R Smith, 1848-1880), 1: 65-8. Illustration, pl. XXIV.

Reference (free text)

John Kirby Hedges, The History of Wallingford, in the County of Berks, From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Present Time 2 vols. (London: William Clowes & Sons, 1881), 1: 136-7.

Reference (free text)

Thomas Morgan, Romano-British Mosaic Pavements: A History of Their Discovery and a Record and Interpretation of Their Designs (London: Witing & Co., 1886), pp. 145-6, 148-9.

Reference (free text)

Walter Money, 'Notes on Basildon', Transactions of the Newbury District Field Club 4 (1886-1895): 96-121.
    The item is a plate from Collectanea Antiqua (see Bibliography).