Drawings Bronze Age axe(s) from Ulleskelf, North Yorkshire
Object number
LDSAL2020.38.279
Artist/Designer/Maker
Polleyn & Hunt - Artist
Polleyn & Hunt - Lithographer
Polleyn & Hunt - Lithographer
Production date
1849
Pre 1855
Pre 1855
Production place
Leeds (West Yorkshire)
Material
Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink
Ink
Printer's Ink
Technique
Drawing
Lithography
Lithography
Dimensions
Height: 376mm
Width: 271mm
Width: 271mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
BRONZE CELTS & PALSTAVE.
Found 1849 at a depth of 5 Feet in a Sand and Warp Soil near Ulleskelf, Yorkshire.
in the possession of Mr R. H. Brackstone, London.
Found 1849 at a depth of 5 Feet in a Sand and Warp Soil near Ulleskelf, Yorkshire.
in the possession of Mr R. H. Brackstone, London.
Inscription content
Polleyn & Hunt Del et Lith, Leeds
Inscription content
Private plate, presented to the Society of Antiquaries by Wm Boyne 1855
Actual size
Actual size
References
Reference (free text)
John Evans, The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1881), p. 131-2.
Reference (free text)
'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 8 (1851): 91.
Palstave exhibited by Mr Brackstone 'ornamented elaborately with engraved chevrony patterns'. Unusual waisted form of the palstave noted. It seems to have been part of a small hoard.
Illustration, opp. p. 88 (plate entitled 'Antiquities of Bronze').
Reference (free text)
'Proceedings at Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 18 (1861): 164.
Illustration (Engraving), p. 164.
Reference (free text)
W R H Brackstone, [Catalogue of Archaeological Collections, 1848-1867], p. 22.
Photocopy of the original manuscript in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum.
