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Drawings Piece of inscribed bone, from Somerset

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.71

Artist/Designer/Maker

Way, Albert - Artist
Utting, Robert Brooke - Engraver

Production date

1852
1852

Material

Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)
Letterpress Printing

Dimensions

Height: 57mm
Width: 127mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Another ancient object preserved at Chilton Polden, and found at King's Sedgemoor, near Somerton, a locality where numerous Roman remains have been brought to light, is the piece of bone here represented, (orig. size) on which is scored the name APRILIS. It is evidently the moiety of the handle of a knife or tool used by some Roman artificer; and the name, it may interest some readers of the Journal to be reminded, occurs as a potter's mark on mortaria found in London, as also on 'Samian' ware.

Inscription content

A WAY DEL

Inscription content

UTTING SC

References

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 9 (1852): 106-7. Illustration (Engraving), p. 107.