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Drawings Bronze Age axe & Roman purse from North Yorkshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.310

Production date

1849
1851

Material

paper
ink
printer's ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving
Woodcut

Dimensions

Height: 202mm
Width: 116mm

Inscriptions

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ANTIQUITIES OF BRONZE.

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Bronze relic, found in a cairn, in Yorkshire.

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Bronze celt, in the possession of Mr. Brackstone.
(See p. 91.)

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Arch. Inst. VIII. 88

References

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 8 (1851): 91. Palstave exhibited by Mr Brackstone 'ornamented elaborately with engraved chevrony patterns'. Unusual waisted form of the palstave noted. It seems to have been part of a small hoard. Illustration, opp. p. 88 (plate entitled 'Antiquities of Bronze').

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 18 (1861): 164. Illustration (Engraving), p. 164.

Reference (free text)

W R H Brackstone, [Catalogue of Archaeological Collections, 1848-1867], p. 22. Photocopy of the original manuscript in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum.

Reference (free text)

John Evans, The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1881), p. 131-2. Illustration (Engraving), fig. 158, p. 132.
    The item is a plate from Archaeological Journal (see Bibliography).