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Drawings Bronze Age barrow near Canterbury

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.115

Artist/Designer/Maker

Ogg, Henry A - Artist

Production date

1842
1844

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Brush
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 155mm
Width: 215mm

Inscriptions

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I.

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Horizontal Section of the Barrow, shewing [sic] the disposition of the Urns. The dotted line marks the extent of the excavation.

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Portion of one of the 4 small Urns, the only fragment which could be preserved.

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Henry A. Ogg Pinxit, from a sketch by F. W. Bell, Esq.

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Archæologia Vol. XXX. p. 59.

References

Reference (free text)

John Yonge Akerman, 'Account of the Opening by Matthew Bell, Esq. of an Ancient British Barrow, in Iffins Wood, near Canterbury, in the Month of January, 1842', Archaeologia 30 (1844): 57-61. Illustration (Engraving), p. 59.

Reference (free text)

Paul Ashbee, Kent in Prehistoric Times (Stroud: Tempus, 2005), p. 131.