Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16393

    Remnants of Roman fort at Netherby, Cumbria

    Date
    1732-1763
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p65
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (paper): 314mm
    width (paper): 205mm
    Description
    A pen drawing of a Roman fort at Netherby, Cumbria, with an inscription at the top in ink: 'A draught of the Discoverys made at Netherby in the Parish of Arthuret of County of Cumberland in the Month of May in the Year of our Lord 1745.'

    This was printed as tab. 11 for John Taylor, ‘Observations on two ancient Roman inscriptions discovered at Netherby in Cumberland’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 53 (1763), pp. 133-39.
    Transcription
    In ink: 'A draught of the Discoverys made at Netherby in the Parish of Arthuret of County of Cumberland in the Month of May in the Year of our Lord 1745.' Legends a the bottom of the scheme.
    'N.B. Most of the Rooms were floor'd with a small thick Flagg laid in Cement, with these Course of Pavement below.'
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    John Taylor, ‘Observations on two ancient Roman inscriptions discovered at Netherby in Cumberland’, Phil. Trans., 53 (1763),
    pp. 133-39, tab. 11. The discoveries at Netherby date back to 1732, and the inscriptions were discovered in 1762.

    John Taylor is identified in the paper as the Revd. John Taylor, LLD, Canon Residentiary of St Paul's, and Chancellor of the Diocese of Lincoln.
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