Drawing [Description of the Old and Present Channels and Sluices Belonging to the Upper Levels in 1718, near Maidstone, Kent]
Object number
LDSAL2026.3.24
Artist/Designer/Maker
McPherson Rice, William - Artist
Production date
1822
Material
paper
watercolour
pen
ink
pencil
watercolour
pen
ink
pencil
Technique
Drawing
Watercolour
Watercolour
Dimensions
height: 336mm
width: mm
width: mm
Location
Burlington House - Kent, L-R
Content description
A copy of a map dated 1718 showing the old courses of the river Rother, with annotations. This is no. III of a series of drawings labelled I-VIIII by William McPherson Rice, of objects found in a shipwreck in the River Rother.
Inscriptions
Inscription content
A description of the old and present channels and sluices belonging to the upper levels AD 1718
That part of the Rother now lost or reduced to dykes and land drains shown by the ticked lines
That part of the Rother now lost or reduced to dykes and land drains shown by the ticked lines
Inscription content
There is no navigation from Petmans Heath to Knollisdam and from where the vessel lies to Petmans Heath can scarcely be traced even as a land drain. A road passes over one part and a footpath cuts it off close by the vessel. This dyke is about 8ft broad and 2 ft deep standing water.
Inscription content
x Extent of navigation for barges of about 30 tons by the Otter Channel. Up to 1600 the waters used to run as shown by the dotted lines but prior to the time of Edward 3rd the course was very difft. running though Romney Marsh
Inscription content
WMRice
References
Reference (free text)
William McPherson Rice, "Account of an Ancient vessel recently found under the old bed of the river Rother, in Kent". Archaeologia 20 (1824), p. 553-563. Illustration (engraving) Pl. XXV p. 554
A copy of a map dated 1718 showing the old courses of the river Rother, with annotations. This is no. III of a series of drawings labelled I-VIIII by William McPherson Rice, of objects found in a shipwreck in the River Rother.
The wreck was excavated in 1822, and from the method of construction was deemed to be a Dutch trading vessel. Documentary evidence for the silting up of the Rother puts the date of the shipwreck before 1623. An account was read at the Society of Antiquaries' meeting on 7 November 1822.
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