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Drawings Witham Shield

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.295

Artist/Designer/Maker

Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir - Artist

Production date

1826
1831

Material

paper
pencil

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 505mm
Width: 331mm

Associated place

Witham (river)
Washingborough
Lincolnshire
Goodrich Court
British Museum
England
Aberystwith
Ceredigion
Cardiganshire
Wales
United Kingdom
Europe

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Ancient British Shield, Goodrich Court. Archæologia Vol.

Inscription content

S.R.M. delt.

References

Reference (free text)

Samuel Rush Meyrick, 'Description of Two Antient [sic] British Shields, Preserved in the Armoury at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire', Archaeologia 23 (1831): 92-7. Illustration (Engraving), pl. XIII, opp. p. 96.

Reference (free text)

John M Kemble, Horæ Ferales; or, Studies in the Archæology of the Northern Nations (London: Lovell, Reeve, and Co., 1863), p. 190. Illustration, pl. XIV, opp. p. 190.

Reference (free text)

Michael J Jones, Roman Lincoln: Conquest, Colony, & Capital (Stroud: Tempus, 2002). Illustration (Photograph), pl. 4.