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
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.