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The Witham Shield
The engraving shows two views of the Witham shield. One view is a detail of the mounts on the shield, and the other is an outline of the whole shield showing the rivet holes for the figure of a boar. It was found in 1826 in the river Witham at Washingborough, Lincolnshire. There are also two views of a circular bronze buckler found c1810 in a bog near Aberystwyth.
Creator
- British Museum
- Meyrick, Llewelyn
- Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir
Subject
- Armour and Weapons
- Drawings
- Engravings/Etchings/Lithographs
- Metalwork
- archaeology
- Drawing
- Goldwork
- Archaeology
Creator
- British Museum
- Meyrick, Llewelyn
- Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir
Subject
- Armour and Weapons
- Drawings
- Engravings/Etchings/Lithographs
- Metalwork
- archaeology
- Drawing
- Goldwork
- Archaeology
Providing institution
Aggregator
Intermediate provider
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Rights
- British Museum|Meyrick, Llewelyn|Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir
Temporal
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age
Places
- Aberystwith
- British Museum
- Cardiganshire
- Ceredigion
- England
- Europe
- Goodrich Court
- Lincolnshire
- United Kingdom
- Wales
- …
Provenance
- Society of Antiquaries of London Catalogue of Drawings and Museum Objects: Primeval Antiquities
Source
- Archaeology Data Sevice
Identifier
- society_albums/primeval_antiquities/pa83-3
Is part of
- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/SoA_images/index.cfm?CFID=9579&CFTOKEN=BF7E76A0-D723-4BB2-9AC4B2BE9A527C12
References
- John M Kemble, Horæ Ferales; or, Studies in the Archæology of the Northern Nations (London: Lovell, Reeve, and Co., 1863), p. 190. Illustration, pl. XIV, opp. p. 190.|Michael J Jones, Roman Lincoln: Conquest, Colony, & Capital (Stroud: Tempus, 2002). Illustration (Photograph), pl. 4.|Samuel Rush Meyrick, 'Description of Two Antient [sic] British Shields, Preserved in the Armoury at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire', Archaeologia 23 (1831): 92-7. Illustration (Engraving), pl. XIII, opp. p. 96.
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-01-18T10:20:17.891Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-07-25T11:21:26.369Z