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Drawings Viking objects from Halton, Lancashire

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.100

Artist/Designer/Maker

Smirke, Richard - Artist

Production date

1817

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 311mm
Width: 197mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Saxon antiquities discovered near Halton Moor, near Lancaster.
Archæol. Vol. XVIII. p. 202.

Inscription content

Smirke delt.

Inscription content

Silver Torques
Gold Coin
Coin of Cnut.

References

Reference (free text)

Taylor Combe, 'Account of Some Saxon Antiquities Found near Lancaster', Archaeologia 18 (1817): 199-202.Illustrations (Engravings), figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, pl. XVII, opp. p. 202; pl. XVIII, between pp. 202 and 203.

Reference (free text)

British Museum, A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic Antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities (London, 1923), pp. 108-10.

Reference (free text)

J D A Thompson, Inventory of British Coin Hoards ([England?]: Royal Numismatic Society, 1956), pp. 66-7.