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Drawings Iron Age sword and scabbard from North Yorkshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.2.41

Material

paper
watercolour

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 271mm
Width: 170mm

Associated place

Cotterdale
North Yorkshire
Yorkshire
British Museum
England
United Kingdom
Europe

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Celtic

References

Reference (free text)

Augustus W Franks, 'Notes on a Sword Found in Catterdale [sic], Yorkshire, Exhibited by Lord Wharncliffe, and on Other Examples of the Same Kind', Archaeologia 45 (1880): 251-66. Illustration (Engraving), figs. 1 and 2, pl. XVI, opp. p. 251.

Reference (free text)

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 2nd series 5 (1870-1873): 31.

Reference (free text)

Stuart Piggott, 'Swords and Scabbards of the British Early Iron Age', Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 16 (1950): 1-28. Illustration, no. 2, fig. 9, p. 18.

Reference (free text)

I M Stead, British Iron Age Swords and Scabbards (London: British Museum Press, 2006), cat. no. 204, pp. 192-3, 266. Illustration, p. 266.

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