Ruins of a furnace works in Kenchester
Date
1668
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Manuscript page number
p6-7
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Dimensions
height (paper): 313mm
width (paper): 392mm
width (paper): 392mm
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Description
Architectural plan of the ruins of a furnace works along the Kenchester-Wall (also called Ariconium) in Herefordshire sent in a letter from Joseph Walsh to Theodore de Vaux. The letter was read at the meeting of 30 April 1668. A subsequent letter dated 27 May 1668 describing the measurements of the ruins was read to the Royal Society on 9 July 1668.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 30 April 1668, ‘Sir Theodore de Vaux communicated a letter of Mr. Joseph Walsh, dated April 26, 1668, giving an account of a cinereous substance found at Kenchester-Walls, anciently a Roman station, called Ariconium, in Herefordshire: which letter was ordered to be inserted in the Letter-Book, and Sir Theodore desired to procure some of those cinders’ (Birch 2:274).
Related fellows
Theodore de Vaux (1623 - 1694, British) , Physician
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