Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9370
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Stone coffins at Wardlow, Derbyshire
Date
ca. 1761
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height (drawing): 325mm
width (drawing): 207mm
width (drawing): 207mm
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Map of a circle of stone coffins discovered in a field near Wardlow during the construction of a turnpike road. Endorsed verso “13 May 1762”, the date of reading at the Royal Society.
Plate 15 for the paper “An account of a remarkable monument found near Ashford in Derbyshire...” by Samuel Evatt, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.52 (1761-1762), pp.544-546.
Plate 15 for the paper “An account of a remarkable monument found near Ashford in Derbyshire...” by Samuel Evatt, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.52 (1761-1762), pp.544-546.
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