Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15207

    Roman altar

    Date
    17th century
    Creator
    Ralph Thoresby (1658 - 1725, British) , Antiquary and Topographer, Antiquary
    Object type
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    Manuscript page number
    p3
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 150mm
    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
    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
    Ralph Thoresby (1658 - 1725, British) , Antiquary and Topographer, Antiquary
    Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
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