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Drawings Bronze Age moulds for casting rapiers, from Devon

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.335

Artist/Designer/Maker

Utting, Robert Brooke - Engraver

Production date

1852
1861
1867

Material

paper
ink
printer's ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving
Woodcut

Dimensions

Height: 205mm
Width: 134mm

Inscriptions

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STONE MOULDS FOR CASTING WEAPONS OF BRONZE.

Inscription content

Found at Hennock, near Chudleigh, Devon.
In the possession of Mr. J. G. Croker.
(Dimensions, A - length 24½ in. greatest width 3 in. B - length 21½ in. width 3 in.)

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RB UTTING

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Arch. Inst. IX. 184

References

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 9 (1852): 185-6. Ilustration (Engraving by Utting), opp. p. 185.

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 18 (1861): 160-1. Illustration (Engraving), p. 162.

Reference (free text)

Charles Tucker, 'Notices of Antiquities of Bronze Found in Devonshire', Archaeological Journal 24 (1867): 110-22. Ilustration (Engraving), opp. p. 112.

Reference (free text)

John Evans, The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1881), pp. 434-5. Illustration (Engraving), p. 434.
    The item is a plate from Archaeological Journal (see Bibliography).