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Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites
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LOT 1881

Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites

CIRCA 1645-1646 A.D.

17 3/4 x 12 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (18.4 kg total, box: 45 x 31 x 16.5 cm).

Comprising: clay pipe stems; clay pipe bowls; pistol and musket balls; lead whorls and other items; thimbles, and domestic items; fragments of glazed pottery, bellarmine jug, tiles and other items; in an 18th century or later wooden display box with six compartments above and sliding drawer with four more compartments, brass escutcheon to obverse; brass hinges to lid, frontal plate with two lateral pivoting reeded panels, each engaging with peg on the underside of the lid; brass drop-handle to each endwall; brass lock (no key); lid with reserved panel, heater shield with arms featuring hatched bars and a vertical arrow; old collector's paper note with legend 'Artefacts excavated from camps and fortifications along the circumvallation from the 3rd siege of the toun [sic] of Newark 1645-1646 from Beacon Hill - Leicester's camp - Marlborough old line - backoly - Molly Hornwork Kings line - See R. Clamps plan' [No Reserve]

Provenance

Excavated from camps and fortifications from the 3rd siege of Newark (1645-1646); Beacon Hill, a Leicester camp; Marlborough old line, Backely; and Molls Hornwork, Kings Line.
From the private collection of John Fox, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK, antiquarian and archaeologist; his collection assembled in the 1950s-1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Footnotes

A hornwork was a defensive construction, a flat face between two bastions.

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LOT 1881

Cased Collection of Civil War and Other Artefacts from Excavations at Newark and Leicester Siege Sites

Sold for (Inc. bp): £260

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