Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14929

    Patterns in a Roman stone

    Date
    1694-1695
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol11ii p206
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 306mm
    width (page): 177mm
    Subject
    Description
    An ink sketch in the text of a border pattern found on a stone with a figure that had been excavated near Catterick Bridge, over the river Swale, in the parish of Catterick, Yorkshire.

    This figure was copied from LBO/11ii/194.
    Transcription
    This figure is twice as long as the other, and hath its hand lifted up with something in it, like a pretty great Stone, which it seemes to be throwing the Stone, and has a border on either End like this
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Related fellows
    Thomas Gale (1635 - 1702, British) , Antiquary
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