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Drawings Bronze Age socketed axe from North Yorkshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.196

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Artist

Production date

1812

Material

paper
pen
ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 135mm
Width: 106mm
Height (of Mount): 200mm
Width (of Mount): 170mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Celt with a ring of the same metal, on which ring was also a bead of Jet; found a few years ago at Tadcaster in Yorkshire.
Archæologia XVI. 362.

Inscription content

J.Basire, del.

References

Reference (free text)

Archaeologia 16 (1812): 362. Illustration (Engraving), pl. LIV, between pp.360 and 361.