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
Pen
Ink
Wash
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 292mm
Width: 422mm
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.
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.