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Drawings Bronze Age gold torque fragments from Dorset

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.264

Production date

1849
1850

Material

Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)
Woodcut

Dimensions

Height: 200mm
Width: 120mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

GOLD ORNAMENTS DISCOVERED IN DORSETSHIRE.

Inscription content

Fig. D Fragments of tube, with beads attached, separate beads, and portions of a solid rod of gold.
Weight, 19 dwt. 7 gr. Same size as the originals.
In the possession of the Right Hon. Lord Digby.

Inscription content

Arch Inst. VII. 65

References

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 7 (1850): 64-5. Illustration (Engraving) opp. p. 65.

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).