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Letter, 'On the discovery of a skeleton, swords, helmet, nacklet when making a road between Thrapston and Kettering; also an 'after-pass' in Trywell Field' from Charles Mason to Daniel Gray

Reference number: L&P/2/472

Date: 1754

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Subject: Archaeology

Read 24 January 1754

Reference number
L&P/2/472
Earliest possible date
1754
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Mason

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Charles Mason, Letter, 'On the discovery of a skeleton, swords, helmet, nacklet when making a road between Thrapston and Kettering; also an 'after-pass' in Trywell Field' from Charles Mason to Daniel Gray, 1754, L&P/2/472, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_472/letter-on-the-discovery-of-a-skeleton-swords-helmet-nacklet-when-making-a-road-between-thrapston-and-kettering-also-an-after-pass-in-trywell-field-from-charles-mason-to-daniel-gray, accessed on 11 February 2025

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