A petrified cockle and stone resembling a unicorn's horn
Date
1690-91
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p98
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 364mm
width (page): 237mm
width (page): 237mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Marginal drawings of a petrified cockle and a stone resembling a unicorn's horn.
The petrified cockle is described by the image depicted in the margin 'but with a sharp nib'. The second stone is described as resembling a unicorn's horn, but without tapering, and is of a reddish-gray colour. These images are found in 'Memoires of Naturall Remarques in the county of Wiltshire, to which are annexed observables of the same kind in the county of Surrey and Flynt-shire' by John Aubrey, FRS.
This manuscript is a transcript of Aubrey's original made by B. G. Cramer, Clerk to the Royal Society, in 1690-91.
The petrified cockle is described by the image depicted in the margin 'but with a sharp nib'. The second stone is described as resembling a unicorn's horn, but without tapering, and is of a reddish-gray colour. These images are found in 'Memoires of Naturall Remarques in the county of Wiltshire, to which are annexed observables of the same kind in the county of Surrey and Flynt-shire' by John Aubrey, FRS.
This manuscript is a transcript of Aubrey's original made by B. G. Cramer, Clerk to the Royal Society, in 1690-91.
Transcription
Regarding first image:
On the top of a high hill south of Dinton in the banke in the high way, is great plenty of a sort of petrified Cockles: as in the margent: but with a sharp nib: and they have no counter part as a cockle, or Scalop.
Regarding second image:
In the grounds of Mr Tho: Beach of Steple Ashton called........are frequently found stones something resembling the Picture of the Unicorns horne, but not sapering [tapering?]: they are about the bignesse of a Cartrope: and are of a reddish-gray colour.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
On the top of a high hill south of Dinton in the banke in the high way, is great plenty of a sort of petrified Cockles: as in the margent: but with a sharp nib: and they have no counter part as a cockle, or Scalop.
Regarding second image:
In the grounds of Mr Tho: Beach of Steple Ashton called........are frequently found stones something resembling the Picture of the Unicorns horne, but not sapering [tapering?]: they are about the bignesse of a Cartrope: and are of a reddish-gray colour.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
By John Aubrey, FRS. This manuscript is a transcript of Aubrey's original manuscript (1685). It was transcribed by B. G. Cramer, Clerk to the Royal Society, at the behest of the Society in 1690-91.
At page 67 is inserted a map of a navigable passage from Bristol to London, engraved by Thomas Jenner in 1668, with the arms of the borough. Six leaves of additional matter are inserted at page 276, and four more at page 304.
At page 67 is inserted a map of a navigable passage from Bristol to London, engraved by Thomas Jenner in 1668, with the arms of the borough. Six leaves of additional matter are inserted at page 276, and four more at page 304.
Related fellows
John Aubrey (1626 - 1697, British) , Antiquary
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