Stone coffins at Wardlow, Derbyshire
Date
1761
Creator
James Mynde (1710, British) , Printmaker
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p63
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 325mm
width (paper): 207mm
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.
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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