Letter from Thomas Crofton Croker
Reference code
SAL/01/02/29/01
Title
Letter from Thomas Crofton Croker
Date
c 1829
Level of description
item
Scope and content
Giving an account of the tumulus at Warbank, Keston, Kent with a catalogue of pottery excavated from the site.
Mentioned in the minute book for 29th Jan 1829: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.035.141
The excavation of the site is mentioned in Archaeologia Vol. 22 1829 pp.336-349: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeologia/article/xxiv-an-account-of-some-recent-discoveries-at-holwoodhill-in-kent-by-aj-kempe-esq-fsa-in-a-letter-addressed-to-nicholas-carlisle-esq-frs-secretary/5B9D466FB6EEBA80D4A9813EAFC28377
Letter written in response to the initial account of excavations, giving a detailed report of later excavations of the same site, published in Archaeologia Vol. 36 Issue 1, 1855 pp.120-128: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeologia/article/xiv-an-account-of-excavations-on-the-site-of-roman-buildings-at-keston-near-bromley-kent-in-a-letter-to-rearadmiral-w-h-smyth-frs-vp/A11F7DD9DAB43918AB4A5DC8BA559838
The excavations are referenced, with some original drawings included, in the following paper: ‘Barrow and Walled Cemeteries in Britain’, Jessup, R.F., Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Vol. 22, Issue 1, 1959, pp.24-26 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00681288.1959.11894998)
Mentioned in the minute book for 29th Jan 1829: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.035.141
The excavation of the site is mentioned in Archaeologia Vol. 22 1829 pp.336-349: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeologia/article/xxiv-an-account-of-some-recent-discoveries-at-holwoodhill-in-kent-by-aj-kempe-esq-fsa-in-a-letter-addressed-to-nicholas-carlisle-esq-frs-secretary/5B9D466FB6EEBA80D4A9813EAFC28377
Letter written in response to the initial account of excavations, giving a detailed report of later excavations of the same site, published in Archaeologia Vol. 36 Issue 1, 1855 pp.120-128: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeologia/article/xiv-an-account-of-excavations-on-the-site-of-roman-buildings-at-keston-near-bromley-kent-in-a-letter-to-rearadmiral-w-h-smyth-frs-vp/A11F7DD9DAB43918AB4A5DC8BA559838
The excavations are referenced, with some original drawings included, in the following paper: ‘Barrow and Walled Cemeteries in Britain’, Jessup, R.F., Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Vol. 22, Issue 1, 1959, pp.24-26 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00681288.1959.11894998)
Creator
Croker, Thomas Crofton (1798-1854), Irish antiquary