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Drawings Bronze Age gold bracelets from Dorset

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.257

Production date

1849
1850

Material

paper
ink
printer's ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving
Woodcut

Dimensions

Height: 190mm
Width: 120mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

GOLD ARMILLÆ, DISCOVERED IN DORSETSHIRE.

Inscription content

Fig. A. Weight 2 oz. 2 dwt. 21 gr.
Fig. B. Weight, 11 dwt. 5 gr.
Fig. C. Weight, 6 dwt. 3 gr. Same size as the originals.
In the possession of the Right Hon. Lord Digby

Inscription content

Arch Inst. VII 64

References

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Achaeological Journal 7 (1850): 64-5. Illustration (Engraving), opp. p. 64.

Reference (free text)

Joan J Taylor, Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), p. 80.
    The item is a proof or cutting from Archaeological Journal (see Bibliography).