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Drawings Roman shale object in Dorset County Museum

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.67

Artist/Designer/Maker

J H A - Artist
Utting, Robert Brooke - Engraver

Production date

1859
1859

Material

paper
ink
printer's ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 228mm
Width: 140mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Kimmeridge 'Coal Money:' specimen in the Dorchester Museum, with part of an armlet attached, fractured in the lathe. (Original size.)

Inscription content

J. H. A. Del

Inscription content

UTTING. Sc.

Inscription content

Arch. Inst. XVI. p. 300

References

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 16 (1859): 299-302. Illustration (Engraving), p. 300. Report by Rev John Austen on 'Kimmeridge coal money' found on the isle of Purbeck. Povington, excavated by Austen, was found to be one of the manufacturing sites for lathe-turned shale rings, bracelets, etc.