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Drawings Bronze Age moulds for casting rapiers, from Devon

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.336

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: 120mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MANUFACTURE OF WEAPONS OF BRONZE IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

Inscription content

Moulds for casting Blades of Bronze. Found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire.
Length of the longer mould, 24½ inches; greatest width, 3 inches. Length of the smaller mould, 21½ inches.

Inscription content

Arch Inst XVII. p. 163

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).