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Drawing Anglo-Saxon objects from Ash, Kent

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.315

Artist/Designer/Maker

Jacob, Edward - Artist

Production date

1762

Material

paper
watercolour
pen
ink

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 566mm
Width: 926mm

Location

Burlington House - Britannia Romana vol. 1

Associated place

Ash (Kent)
Gilton
Kent
Ashmolean Museum
England
United Kingdom
Europe

Inscriptions

Inscription content

ANTIQUITIES discovered at ASH near SANDWICH 1762.

References

Reference (free text)

William Boys, Collections for an History of Sandwich in Kent, with Notices of the Other Cinque Ports and Members, and of Richborough (Canterbury: Simmons, Kirkby, and Jones, 1792), pp 868-9.Illustration, pls. between pp. 868 and 869.

Reference (free text)

James Douglas, Nenia Britannica: Or, a Sepulchral History of Great Britain from the Earliest Period, to its General Conversion to Christianity (London: John Nichols, 1793), p. 48-52. Illustration, pl. XII.

Reference (free text)

Bryan Faussett, Inventorium Sepulchrale: an Account of Some Antiquities Dug up at Gilton, Kingston, Sibertswold, Barfriston, Beakesbourne, Chartham, and Crundale, in the County of Kent, from A.D. 1757 to A.D. 1773 (London, 1856), pp. 18-24.

Reference (free text)

Arthur MacGregor and Ellen Bolick, A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections (Non-Ferrous Metals) (Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1993), pp. 20, 73 (no. 6.11). NB. These came into the Ashmolean Museum from James Douglas's collection, and are thought to have been found in 1771 (tumulus 15) however it appears (see Bibliography) that some finds were acquired by Mr Haywood of Ash, who passed some of them to Mr Jacobs of Faversham, from whom Douglas acquired them. It seems they were actually found in 1762, the date of the drawing.
    The Society's minutes for 27 January 1763 relate the contents of a letter from Mr Jacobs, which was accompanied by this drawing, describing the discovery of 'several bodies in wooden cases' in the sandpit at Ash, thought to be the burial ground for the Roman garrison at Richborough, close by. He also describes the finds made by Rev Bryan Faussett in the same place.
    Some of the objects are in the Ashmolean Museum, others (apparently those found by Faussett, including the set of weights) in the Mayer collection at Liverpool.