The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
William Bunce ( - )
References in Documents:Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Junior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.) [Addendum 14] A Roman Urn : given by the Revd. Mr. Buckler Fellow of All-Souls Coll . 1754 . Transcript of the Paper sent with it. In
the Year 1746 as Certain Labourers were digging stones out of a Large Barrow
in a field belonging to Knowle Farme in
the Parish of Little Bedwin , &
withintwo miles of Froxfeild in the
County of Wilts , in order to mend the
Turnpike Road between Marlbourough
byFroxfeild aforesaid; They struck
upon some potsherds, as they thought, & breaking them with their
Mattocks or Picaxes, from some of them issued a Black matter like a Jelly
wMr. William Bunce of Froxfeild aforesaid Surveyor of the said Turnpike road
coming to them & observing, these extraordinary appearances, charged his
men to dig on with caution, when they came to any more ashes, & to
endeavour to take out these vessels whole which they did for the future
preserving three entire of different sizes & of a Conick shape with
their mouths downward & calcin'd Bones under them. One very small
holding.
ch. Smelt very fragant of Spices Herbs &c, & when they brought it into the Air upon their or Shovels, was in continual motion quivering & shaking; they likewise observed ashes to lay round about the Places where these Pots stood. Their Master