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Drawings Bronze Age shield from the Isis, Oxfordshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.292

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Artist

Production date

1836
1838

Material

Paper
Wash
Brush
Ink

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 290mm
Width: 226mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Bronze British Buckler found in the bed of the River Isis.
Archæol. Vol. XXVII. p.298.

Inscription content

J.Basire delt.

Inscription content

B. Museum

References

Reference (free text)

John Gage, 'Account of a British Buckler, Found in the Bed of the River Isis, Between Little Wittenham and Dorchester, in Oxfordshire', Archaeologia 27 (1838): 298-300. Illustration (Engraving), pl. XXII, opp. p. 298.