Drawings Bronze Age weapons from Shropshire
Object number
LDSAL2020.38.344
Artist/Designer/Maker
Dukes, Thomas Farmer - Attributed To
Production date
1834
Material
Paper
Watercolour
Pen
Ink
Watercolour
Pen
Ink
Technique
Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)
Painting (Image-Making)
Dimensions
Height: 374mm
Width: 524mm
Width: 524mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Ancient Swords Spear heads and Javelins found in a Morass at the Wrekin in Shropshire in the Spring of the year of 1834 presented to the Society.
Inscription content
in the Society's Collection Aug. 70. JH. Except I
Inscription content
The two parts presented in 1978. Correspondence with Eric Hewison concerning reappearance of cast of spearhead for sale in the Wrekin in 1978 for £165.
we have other fragments not illustrated.
we have other fragments not illustrated.
Inscription content
Ancient Spearhead or Javelin, and Celt found in a Morass at the Wrekin, in Shropshire in the Spring of the Year 1834.
Inscription content
not in Society's Collection
References
Reference (free text)
'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 7 (1850): 77.
Reference (free text)
Charles Henry Hartshorne, Salopia Antiqua (London: John W Parker, 1841), p. 95-7.
Illustration (Engraving), opp. p. 96.