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Drawings Bronze Age shield from the Isis, Oxfordshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.30

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Artist
Basire, James - Engraver

Production date

1836
1838

Material

paper
ink
printer's ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 254mm
Width: 150mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

A bronze British Buckler found in the bed of the River Isis.

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.
    The item is a plate from Archaeologia (see Bibliography).