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Drawings Bronze Age torque from Winslow, Buckinghamshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.280

Artist/Designer/Maker

Underwood, T R - Artist

Production date

1793
1808

Material

Paper
Brush
Wash
Watercolour

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 242mm
Width: 220mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

'Neck ornament of bronze, formed of a piece of Strong wire, the extremities recurved and terminating with flat circular buttons. It is descibed in Archæol. XI. 425, as a 'fibula', but it appears to be a variety of the torc, of a simple form. It was found in a bed of solid clay, 5 feet below the surface, on the estate of William Lowndes Selby Esq. by the side of a rivulet, near Winslow, Bucks. Nov. 1793.

Inscription content

Archæologia Vol. XI. p. 425.

Inscription content

T.R. Underwood, del. 1793.

Inscription content

In the Museum Soc of Antiq. 1848.

References

Reference (free text)

Archaeologia 11 (1808): 429. Illustration (Engraving), fig. 3, pl. XIX, opp. p. 424.