Drawings Bronze Age barrows and urns from Derbyshire
Object number
LDSAL2020.38.161
Artist/Designer/Maker
Rooke, Hayman - Attributed to
Production date
1784
1787
1787
Material
paper
Wash
Brush
pen
ink
Wash
Brush
pen
ink
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 315mm
Width: 265mm
Width: 265mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
A Plan of the Druid Circles & Barrows on Stanton Moor in the Peak Con: Derby, with the Circles upon a larger Scale.
Taken Nov. 13. 1784
Taken Nov. 13. 1784
Inscription content
No.1 An Urn of course Clay taken out of a small Barrow on Stanton Moor marked (a) No. 4 in the Plan circum. 3 feet 3 In.: height 10 Ins: within this Urn, was a small one. No. 2 covered with a piece of clay. No.3, in the same Barrow were two more Urns similar to the above.
Inscription content
No. 4 The size of the small Urn, taken out of No. 1. This is not only the Type of the small urn in its true dimensions, but also the colour of it.
References
Reference (free text)
Samuel Pegge, 'Observations by the Rev. Mr. Pegge on the Stanton-Moor Urns and Druidical Temple', Archaeologia 8 (1787): 58-62.
Illustration (Engraving), pl. I, opp. p. 59.
