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Drawings Shale vessel from Great Chesterford, Essex

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.78

Artist/Designer/Maker

Utting, Robert Brooke - Engraver

Production date

1856
1857

Material

paper
ink
printer's ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving
Woodcut

Dimensions

Height: 104mm
Width: 116mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Vessel formed of Kimmeridge coal, found in Dec. 1856, at Great Chesterford, Essex, with Roman remains.
Height of the original, 3 inches; diameter at the brim 9½ inches, at the base 7¾ inches.
PRESERVED IN THE HON. RICHARD C. NEVILLE'S MUSEUM AT AUDLEY END.

Inscription content

UTTING Sc

Inscription content

Arch. Inst. XIV. p. 87.

References

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 14 (1857): 85-7. Illustration (Engraving by Utting), p. 86. Communicated by R C Neville at the meeting of 6 February 1857.