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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

Associated place

Chudleigh Knighton
Hennock
Bovey Tracey
Chudleigh
Devon
England
United Kingdom
Europe

Inscriptions

Inscription content

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.)

Inscription content

RB UTTING

Inscription content

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).