The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Lance and Hone

Images supplied courtesy of the Burton Constable Foundation. [Photograph].
Click image for full-size. Collector (major)Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) In Print: Material from the 'Museum' of Ralph Thoresby (1659-1725) Preserved at Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire, 33 Description:Described in Musaeum Thoresbianum as: 'The ‘Brass Lance’ and the ‘Hone to sharpen it’
which were originally found in association
with an ‘Urn’ and ‘Securis Lapidea’ at Broughton
in 1676.'
Burton Constable label: ‘The Hone to sharpen ye Danish I Lance.
Thoresby p. 565 found in I the Same urn with
the annex’d Lance, Mal I let fibula & odd [---]’