Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16391

    Stone coffins at Wardlow, Derbyshire

    Date
    1761
    Creator
    James Mynde (1710, British) , Printmaker
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p63
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (paper): 325mm
    width (paper): 207mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Map of a circle of stone coffins discovered in a field near Wardlow during the construction of a turnpike road. Endorsed on verso '13 May 1762', the date of reading at the Royal Society.

    Published as plate 15 for the paper 'An account of a remarkable monument found near Ashford in Derbyshire...' by Samuel Evatt, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 52 (1761-62), pp. 544-46.
    Object history
    Samuel Evatt, ‘An account of a remarkable monument found near Ashford in Derbyshire’, Phil. Trans., vol. 52 (1761), pp. 544-46, tab. 15, communicated by Benjamin Franklin, identifies the author as: Reverend Samuel Evatt of Ashford, Derbyshire.
    Related fellows
    Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790, American) , Politician
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