Drawing Plans & sections of the excavations on the line of the Roman Wall, 1894-1903
Object number
LDSAL2024.1.1
Artist/Designer/Maker
Hodgson, Elizabeth - Artist
Hodgson, Thomas Hesketh - Artist
Hodgson, Thomas Hesketh - Artist
Production date
1864-1903
Production place
Hadrian's Wall
Material
pen
ink
paper
ink
paper
Technique
drawn
Location
Burlington House - closed access
Content description
Portfolio contents is as follows:
1. Prefatory description
2. List of plates (drawings)
3. (I) Key-map of the Roman Wall from Bowness-on-Solway to Chesters on the North Tyne
4. (II) Profiles of the Valum between the Eden and the North Tyne
5. (III) Sections of the Vallum in Cumberland at Appletree, Castlesteads, Bleatarn, White Moss and Brunstock
6. (IV) The Roman Wall near Burgh Marsh
7. (V) Excavations tracing the Vallum Ditch between Cumrenton and Walton and Low Wall
8. (VI) Map of the Roman Works between Wall Bowers and the Poltross Burn; Stone Conduit, aast of Amboglanna (Birdoswald); Mile Castle on Harrow's Scar; Masonry in the Vallum Ditch at the Poltross Burn
9. (VII) The Turf Wall at Appletree: profile acrsoss the Works; section across the Glacis, Ditch and Turf Wall; three sections across the Turf Wall
10. (VIII) Plan of the excavations near Birdoswald
11. (IX) The North-East gateway, Amboglanna (Birdoswald) with the Turf Wall Ditch underneath it
12. (X) The junction of the Turf Wall Ditch with the Stone Wall, east of Birdoswald, key-plan
13. (XI) Excavations at Carrawburgh (Procolitia)
14. (XII) Excavations at Chesters-on-Tyne (Cilurnum)
15. (XIII) Section across a ditch forming an earlier front at the fort at Chesters-on-Tyne.
16. Handwritten letter by T. H. Hodgson regarding donation
1. Prefatory description
2. List of plates (drawings)
3. (I) Key-map of the Roman Wall from Bowness-on-Solway to Chesters on the North Tyne
4. (II) Profiles of the Valum between the Eden and the North Tyne
5. (III) Sections of the Vallum in Cumberland at Appletree, Castlesteads, Bleatarn, White Moss and Brunstock
6. (IV) The Roman Wall near Burgh Marsh
7. (V) Excavations tracing the Vallum Ditch between Cumrenton and Walton and Low Wall
8. (VI) Map of the Roman Works between Wall Bowers and the Poltross Burn; Stone Conduit, aast of Amboglanna (Birdoswald); Mile Castle on Harrow's Scar; Masonry in the Vallum Ditch at the Poltross Burn
9. (VII) The Turf Wall at Appletree: profile acrsoss the Works; section across the Glacis, Ditch and Turf Wall; three sections across the Turf Wall
10. (VIII) Plan of the excavations near Birdoswald
11. (IX) The North-East gateway, Amboglanna (Birdoswald) with the Turf Wall Ditch underneath it
12. (X) The junction of the Turf Wall Ditch with the Stone Wall, east of Birdoswald, key-plan
13. (XI) Excavations at Carrawburgh (Procolitia)
14. (XII) Excavations at Chesters-on-Tyne (Cilurnum)
15. (XIII) Section across a ditch forming an earlier front at the fort at Chesters-on-Tyne.
16. Handwritten letter by T. H. Hodgson regarding donation
Portfolio titled 'Plans & sections of the excavations on the line of the Roman Wall, 1894-1903' by Thomas Hesketh Hodgson and Elizabeth Hodgson.
The portfolio contains 13 ink on paper hand-drawn excavation plans preceded by a prefatory description and list of plates. Included within the portfolio is a handwritten letter by T. H. Hodgson, regarding the donation of the portfolio to the Society, dated 1st February 1910.
Prefatory text:
These excavations were carried out under the direction of Professor Haverfield FSA and the members of the Roman Wall Committee of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. They were measured and drawn by T.H. Hodgson FSA and Mrs E. Hodgson of Newby Grange, Crosby-on-Edwan, Cumberland. They are described in Professor Haverfield's reports in the Transactions of the Society, Original Series, volumes XIII to XVI, and New Series volumes I to IV, and in some notes by Mrs Hodgson, Original Series volumes XIV and XV.
Presented by T.H. Hodgson FSA, February 1910. Includes a letter from Hodgson regarding the donation dated 1 February 1910.
Digitised thanks to the kind donation of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.
These excavations were carried out under the direction of Professor Haverfield FSA and the members of the Roman Wall Committee of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. They were measured and drawn by T.H. Hodgson FSA and Mrs E. Hodgson of Newby Grange, Crosby-on-Edwan, Cumberland. They are described in Professor Haverfield's reports in the Transactions of the Society, Original Series, volumes XIII to XVI, and New Series volumes I to IV, and in some notes by Mrs Hodgson, Original Series volumes XIV and XV.
Presented by T.H. Hodgson FSA, February 1910. Includes a letter from Hodgson regarding the donation dated 1 February 1910.
Digitised thanks to the kind donation of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.