The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Mr. Greave ( - )
References in Documents:Sepulchral Urns, here is
the same
Form, but considerably less, full of the Ashes of a Child, in
the greater are larger
Bones with the Ashes.
and of different Forms and Colours. Yorke, where 14 or 16 of them were found
surrounding a large one,
and were supposed to contain the Ashes of the Parent and Children;
all these are broad and open at the Top to receive the Bones and
Ashes. Those with the narrow Necks, were, I presume, for Liquids.
; I was well pleased to find itIsurium
entire, that I might observe the Difference betwixt the
Roman
Congius
(of which I take this to be strictly the half) and our Gallon; and this
comes the nighest
Greave's
and a Half, the
Measure.Winchester
,Yorke
with a Handle; this is
Red;
Blew,
WhiteClay that I brought from the same Place; it
hath a Moulding about the Neck.
meter,
ver to a Sepulchral Urn of the like Dimensions; this is of the blewish
Clay, and from
,Yorke
.Burgodunum