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Drawings Bronze Age urns from Beedon & Great Malvern

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.247

Artist/Designer/Maker

Lees, Edward - Artist
Martin, L C - Engraver

Production date

1850
1850

Material

Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)
Woodcut

Dimensions

Height: 204mm
Width: 115mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

BRITISH SEPULCHRAL URNS.

Inscription content

Urn found at Beeden, Berkshire
Scale, half original size.

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Urn discovered at the Worcestershire Beacon, near Great Malvern.
Scale, half original size.
Now in the possession of Edward Lees, Esq.

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MARTIN, Sc

Inscription content

Arch. Inst. VII. 66

References

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 7 (1850): 65-8. Illustration (Engraving), opp. p. 66. Communication of Charles Long to the Archaeological Institute meeting of 4 January 1850, concerning the excavation of a barrow in 1815 by Henry Long, which contained a small Bronze Age vessel with a cremation. A communication from Jabez Allies about the urn found at Great Malvern follows.

Reference (free text)

Pamela Hurle, The Forest and Chase of Malvern (Chichester: Phillimore, 2007), p. 6. Illustration, p. 6, fig. 6.
    The item is a proof of a page of engravings from Archaelogia (see Bibliography).