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Drawings Bronze Age pin from Fowey, Cornwall

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.72

Artist/Designer/Maker

Underwood, T R - Artist

Production date

1794
1809

Material

paper
watercolour

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 174mm
Width: 320mm

Associated place

Fowey
Cornwall
England
United Kingdom
Europe

Inscriptions

Inscription content

'An ancient Instument of Brass, resembling Gold, communicated by Philip Rashleigh, Esq. M.P., found at the bottom of a mine near the river Fowey (Cornwall) ten fathoms under the surface of the earth, where a new work was begun for searching after tin ore.
Archæologia XII. p. 414.

Inscription content

T.R.Underwood, del. 1794

References

Reference (free text)

Archaeologia 12 (1809): 414-15. Illustration (Engraving), fig. 8, pl. LI, between pp. 408 and 409.

Reference (free text)

Michael Herity, 'Early Finds of Irish Antiquities from the Minute-Books of the Society of Antiquaries of London', Antiquaries Journal 49 (1969): 1-21. See especially pp.16-17. Illustration, pl. XIV, opp. p. 17.