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Drawings Jet chessmen from Warrington

Object number

LDSAL2020.42.144

Production date

1856

Material

Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving (Incising)
Wood Engraving (Process)

Dimensions

Height: 50mm
Width: 129mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Early Chessmen - in jet
(Anglo Saxon?)

Inscription content

Arch. Inst.
XIII. 180

References

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 13 (1856): 180-1. Illustration (Engraving), p. 180.

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 9 (1852): 304.

Reference (free text)

James Kendrick, 'An Account of Excavations Made at the Mote Hill, Warrington, Lancashire', Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 5 (1852-1853): 59-68. Illustration (Engraving), opp. p. 59.
    The item is a proof or cutting from Archaeological Journal (see Bibliography).