Four Shire Stone, near Moreton-in-Marsh.
Category
Photographs
Date
1950
Materials
Card
Measurements
85 x 176 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522176
Summary
A monochrome gelatine silver print stereograph of the Four Shire Stone near Moreton-in-Marsh, Cotswolds. The 2 images are straight edged and butt up to each other with no space between them. They are mounted on card which is matt black on recto and cream on verso. It has rounded corners. The image shows a square stone column with a pediment on top leading to a small column and sphere. There is a metal fence around it, and it is on grass with bushes/trees behind. Markings: Verso, Handwritten in blue ink- " "Four Shire Stone" - Oxon.Warwick. Gloster Worcester (but after adjustments for convenience of administration part of Gloster was transfered to Worcestersh) Situated on Oxford road 1 mile from Moreton in Marsh - Originally 4 stones. Referred to in a "Saxon Chronicle" of AD 969 and on "Saxton's Map of Glostershire" of 1577 - Present stone probably erected about the middle of the 18th Century - Photo by T.H. Pettipher 1950".
Provenance
Donated on 5 September 2012 to the Fox Talbot Museum by Mrs Sylvia Warwick.