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Drawings Bronze Age gold lunula from Cornwall

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.252

Artist/Designer/Maker

Lysons, Samuel - Attributed To

Production date

1783
1814

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 272mm
Width: 284mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

A thin Plate of Gold weighing 2 oz 4 dwts 6 gr of the size of the Original, found in 1783, near Penzance in Cornwall.

Inscription content

see Lysons Cornwall p ccxxi

References

Reference (free text)

Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons, Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain 6 vols. (London: T Cadell and W Davies, 1806-1822)., p. ccxxi. Illustration, pl. opp. p. ccxxi.