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Museum Object Model of a passage grave from Jersey

Object number

LDSAL57

Production date

1787

Production place

Jersey

Material

Wood

Technique

Carving

Dimensions

Height: 88 mm
width (At Base): 405 mm
depth (At Base): 296 mm

Location

Burlington House -

References

Reference (free text)

Conway, H.S. (1787) ‘XXXV. Description of a Druidical Monument in the Island of Jersey; in a Letter from the Right Honourable Henry Seymour Conway, Governor of Jersey, to the Earl of Leicester, P. S. A.’, Archaeologia, 8, pp. 386–388. plate XXVIII, XXIX

Reference (free text)

David Gaimster, Sarah McCarthy, and Bernard Nurse, eds., Making History, Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007 (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2007), p. 126, no. 87.Illustration, p. 126.
    Model of a passage-grave from Mount de la Ville in St Helier, Jersey. This is an accurate model of the stones as they stood, before being moved to Henley on Thames. The green-brown paint used to cover the wooden model is chipped in places, but none of the stones are loose.