Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 26755 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 159.03 FAGACEAE Quercus sp | Entry Book Number | 160.1908 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United Kingdom | TDWG Region | United Kingdom | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Great Britain, Collingham, River Trent | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Archaeological | Related Items | |||
| Donor | F Beresford Wright | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Letter Dear Mr Jackson, Enclosed is a piece of Oak bark. When I came to this house in 1859, I found the floor of the best bedroom sink under foot, and from taking up a plank we saw that the builder had put in as beams ? oak ? with sap and, bark on them and ? the joists into them. The sapwood had been reduced to a powder as fine as snuff (?) by the insects, and the joists had become detached. The heart of the wood and the bark were fine. Whether this falls under the Dept. of the Gardens whi, ch you conduct, I am uncertain. Signed RC Prior. Oak wood entirely devoured by worms, put in to Halse House about 120 years ago. Shows the durability of bark, and the importance of leaving sapwood attached to a beam. Dredged from the foundations of the Ro, man Bridge over the Trent at Collingham 1884, built about A.D. 60. Letter 428. 1908 speciman 160/1908. Wooton Court, Warwick. Dec. 4th 1908. Dear Sir, On closer enquiries I am satisified that the chip of old oak which I sent you was dredged up from the bo, ttom of the Trent, during operations at Collingham in 1884, from the foundations of the Roman bridge there, first discovered in a drought in 1792. The Rev. A.D. Hill, the Rector of East Bridgford gives me this information, and the date and some particular, s are confirmed by the daughter of my friend Mr. Cofield (?), who gave me this chip. There is an account of this bridge I believe in the British Arch. Assoc. Proceedings for Jan. 1885. The bridge apparently carried a road running N.W. from the Station of, Cracolaug (?) on the Foss (Brough) 5 miles from Newark. The Foss Road must have been a fairly early construction, Mr. Hill says, judging by the Roman Millitary Stone found near Leicester, and now in the Museum there, of the IVth year of Hadrian, 120 A.D., Yours truly F.Beresford Wright. | ||||