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Drawings Bronze Age urn from Scotland

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.120

Artist/Designer/Maker

Daniell, William - Artist

Production date

1818
1821

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Wash
Brush

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 267mm
Width: 222mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Found in a Pictish Cairn at Crakraig in the County of Sutherland, on the farm of Major Clunes in the spring of 1818.
7 inches & ½ in height. 6 inches & ½ diameter.
Archæologia XIX. p. 411.

Inscription content

W. Daniell, delt. 1818.

Inscription content

W.D. del 1818.

References

Reference (free text)

Archaeologia 19 (1821): 411. Illustration (Engraving), pl. XLIII, opp. p. 407. The drawing was given to the Society of Antiquaries by William Daniell, 1 April 1819. It was accompanied by another showing the area where it was found, as shown in the published plate.