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| 1228 of 1764 Document |
| Archive: | Manning | Unique ID: | 1503 | ||||||||
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Stonesfield | Item No.: | 14 | No. of Sheets: | 1 |
| Title: | Ink drawing coloured with paint, with heading and captions. | ||||
| Content: | Large ink drawing of a tessellated pavement at the Roman villa at Stonesfield. Very detailed, colours painted in. Two features on the drawing are marked A and B. Heading reads: Exact Delineation of the Pavement in Mosaic Work, lately discovered at Stunsfield nere Woodstock by an Husbandman whose plough hitt first against an urn where upon he had a curiosity to digg and found the said Pavement three feet under ground in the manner as is here expressed, and where a mark of the crevice is A. his axe struck into a cavity, which leaves room to conjecture it is vaulted the length of the same is 36 foot and the breadth 20/25. This work is composed of several small stones about the bignes of a dye of different colours which artificially placed apeareth very beautifull. The outletts B at the sides are form'd with large tiles the meaning of which is to be decided by the learned and the simbolical ornaments of concord and mirth giveth occasion to think that it was a place used for banquets. This piece of antiquity is to be esteem'd the most considerable that ever was found in Brittain of the Ancient Romans.' On the reverse is written 'Number 9 pavement'. | ||||
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