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Drawings Medieval bronze ewer from Scotland

Object number

LDSAL2020.42.25

Production date

1789
1808

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 156mm
Width: 140mm
Height (of Mount): 232mm
Width (of Mount): 192mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Brass Pot
found July 1789 in cleaning the medicinal well at Closeburn, five feet below the earth. The ground is a bog.
Archæologia Vol. XI. p. 429.

References

Reference (free text)

Archaelogia 11 (1808): 429. Illustration (Engraving), fig. 4, pl. XIX, opp. p. 424.

Reference (free text)

Daniel Wilson, The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland (Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox, 1851), p. 278. Illustration, p. 278.