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Drawings Iron Age sword and scabbard from North Yorkshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.2.42

Artist/Designer/Maker

Richardson, S A - Artist

Production date

1846

Material

Paper
Watercolour

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 236mm
Width: 115mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

S A Richardson delt. 1846

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), p. 253.

Reference (free text)

Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of York, Communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Held at York, July, 1846 (London: Archaeological Institute, 1848), pp. 11, 34. Illustration (Engraving), fig. 1, pl. V, p. 39.

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.