| RefNo | CLP/16/33 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'An account of some Roman, French and Irish inscriptions and antiquities lately found in Ireland and Scotland by Mr Edward Lluyd [Lhwyd]' by William Musgrave |
| Date | 1700 |
| Description | Musgrave communicates some of the oberservations of Lluyd, including a Roman inscription from Hadrian's Wall, an Irish inscription on a 'stately cross, carv'd on all sides [...] near Drogheda', a Pictish monumunt near Edinburgh, a French inscription at Bullifont [Mellifont] Abbey in Ireland and 'an arrows head of flint, commonly call'd elf-arrow throughout Ireland and Scotland'.
Subject: Antiquities / Language
Read to the Royal Society on 26 February 1700
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of some Roman, French, and Irish inscriptions and antiquities, lately found in Scotland and Ireland' with one page of figures of the inscriptions. |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Notes | Lluyd also spelt Lhwyd, Ludi and Lloyd |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1700.0073 |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/9/32 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7941 | Musgrave; William (1655 - 1721); physician and antiquary | 1655 - 1721 |