Home  / Bronze Age shield from Capel Curig, Conwy, Wales

Drawings Bronze Age shield from Capel Curig, Conwy, Wales

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.291

Artist/Designer/Maker

Carter, John - Attributed To

Production date

1784

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 292mm
Width: 422mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Bronze Tarian found Sept. 1784 in digging Peat at Moel Siabod near Capel Cerig, Denbigshire
Exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries Dec. 9. 1784 by Mr More Sec. of Society of Arts.
See Minute Book Vol. XX. p. 31.

Inscription content

The beads and mouldings of the Front, the size of the original.

Inscription content

Small holes and mouldings of the back, being the reverse of the outside mouldings.

Inscription content

BM

References

Reference (free text)

Albert Way, Catalogue of Antiquities, Coins, Pictures, and Miscellaneous Curiosities, in the Possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1847 (London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1847), no. 80. No. 80 is a very similar shield in the Society's collection. Way compares it with the one shown in this drawing, and notes that the Capel Curig shield was eventually given to the Goodrich Court armouries.

Reference (free text)

John M Coles, 'European Bronze Age Shields', Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 28 (1962): 156-90. Illustration (Photograph), pl. XXIX.

Reference (free text)

J M Coles ... [et al.], A Later Bronze Age Shield from South Cadbury, Somerset, England', Antiquity 73 (1999): 32-48.

Reference (free text)

David Gaimster, Sarah McCarthy, and Bernard Nurse, eds., Making History, Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007 (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2007), p. 125, fig. 21. Illustration, p. 125.