Drawings Anglo-Saxon burials at Sporle, Norfolk
Object number
LDSAL2020.38.179
Artist/Designer/Maker
Stevenson, William - Author
Production date
1814
Production place
Norwich
Material
paper
pen
ink
pen
ink
Technique
Writing (Processes)
Handwriting
Handwriting
Dimensions
Height: 249mm
Width: 410mm
Width: 410mm
References
Reference (free text)
Audrey Meaney, A Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites (London: Allen & Unwin, 1964), pp. 181-2.
Reference (free text)
Charles Roach Smith, Collectanea Antiqua 7 vols. (London: J R Smith, 1848-1880), 2: 234-5.
Illustration, fig. 2, pl. LVI.
Reference (free text)
John Yonge Akerman, Remains of Pagan Saxendom (London: John Russell Smith, 1855), pp. 69, 79.
Illustrations, fig. 1, pl. XXXIV; fig. 1, pl. XL.
Reference (free text)
Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Norfolk and the City of Norwich, Communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britiain and Ireland, Held at Norwich, July, 1847 (London: Archaeological Institute, 1851), p. xxx.
The item is a letter from William Stevenson to Nicholas Carlisle, Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, dated 5 May 1814, from Norwich. Shoeman enclosed the letter from Goddard Johnson (Primeval Antiquities 55.1), and provided a list of the objects from the barrow at Sporle which had accompanied Johnson's letter, and which were to be returned to Johnson after the Society of Antiquaries had viewed them.