Trans Monumental Brass Soc 16 (4)

Discusses the development of the British Museum's collection of over sixty brasses which range in date between the early-fourteenth and early-seventeenth centuries AD. See also 2003/570 and 2003/88.

Discusses two reused roundels, which were revealed during late-eighteenth- or nineteenth-century church restorations, but whose provenance has been forgotten. On the obverse of both were apparently subsidiary elements of a large late-sixteenth or early-seventeenth-century brass; one depicting a pair of compasses, while the other has a schematic representation of a quadrant/sextant. On the reverse of one of the roundels a demi-figure of a priest is shown, encircled by a Latin inscription reading `here lies Thomas Quythed third Master of this College', who is identified as a priest of the diocese of London in the early-fifteenth-century.

Discusses three fragments of brasses from the county that are now in the collection of the British Museum: Peter Idley and wives, c. 1485, Dorchester Church; John and Amice Langstone, 1506, Caversfield; and John Bowes, 1517, Albury Church.

Provides a reference list of brasses in the Museum's collection, featuring both accession numbers and the numbering system devised by Mill Stephenson. The list is sequenced chronologically by date of accession. See also 2003/78 and 2003/570.