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Drawings Bronze Age barrows and urns from Derbyshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.162

Artist/Designer/Maker

Rooke, Hayman - Attributed to

Production date

1784
1787

Material

paper
ink
printer's ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 195mm
Width: 235mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

This curious Urn, the Size of the Print, was deposited in a large Urn, both filled with Ashes & burnt Bones, they were found in a small Barrow within a Druid Circle on Stanton Moor. Com: Derby, by H.Rooke, Esq, F.A.S. Nov: 13th. 1784.

Inscription content

From Mr Milland[?]
Nov. 28. 1889

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), fig. 4, pl. I, opp. p. 59.
    A small engraving apparently privately commissioned, not used in the published article in Archaeologia (see Bibliography).