Roman altar
Date
1697
Creator
Ralph Thoresby (1658 - 1725, British) , Antiquary and Topographer, Antiquary
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Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 161mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Figure of a Roman altar taken from a Roman wall not far from Collarton, in the possession of Mr Forster, Carrow. It is described by the antiquarian Ralph Thoresby in a letter to Hans Sloane, which was read to the Royal Society on 20 July 1697. It was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 19, no. 231 (1697).
Object history
20 July 1697, 'A letter from Mr Thoresby at Leeds to Doctr: Lister was read wherein was an account of 2 roman inscriptions lately found there which was ordered to be printed & both Dr Lister and he to have the thanks of the Society for the communication. He was proposed by Dr Gale as a Candidate to be Elected fellow of the Society, and approved of by those present' (JBO/1/43).
Ralph Thoresby, ‘Two Roman altars lately found in the North of England, with notes on the same by Thomas Gale’, Phil. Trans., vol. 19, no. 231 (August 1697), pp. 663-64.
Ralph Thoresby, ‘Two Roman altars lately found in the North of England, with notes on the same by Thomas Gale’, Phil. Trans., vol. 19, no. 231 (August 1697), pp. 663-64.
Related fellows
Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
Ralph Thoresby (1658 - 1725, British) , Antiquary and Topographer, Antiquary
Ralph Thoresby (1658 - 1725, British) , Antiquary and Topographer, Antiquary
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