Description | Comprising:
Eleven files of newspaper cuttings sourced from various newspapers relating to Wheeler's interests and career.
Ten maps relating to Oxfordshire, Italy, France, Kashmir, the British Front in Northern France during the First World War, ancient route from Balkh to Taxila in Pakistan, the Mohenjo-Daro archaeological site in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India and adjacent countries.
Circa 100 further printed or hand drawn maps, mainly outsize, and 20th century in date including:
Printed Ordnance Survey map of Roman Britain, 1956. Printed map of England and Wales, showing the location of tumuli, n.d. Printed map of Buddhist ruins at Charsada in Pakistan, 1958. Hand drawn plan of the east gateway at Charsada, 1958. Hand drawn map of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani, a community on an island off the coast of East Africa, in present day Tanzania, n.d. Hand drawn map of the fort and temples at Kafir Kot, Pakistan, n.d. Hand drawn map of Roman remains in the eastern Egyptian desert. n.d. Hand drawn plan by Wheeler of the north-east entrance of the oppidum of Bibracte, a fortified city on Mont Beuvray in France, 1923. Hand drawing by Wheeler, of a monument at Fordwich Parish Church, Kent, 1914. Hand drawn plan of the earthworks at Stanwick in Yorkshire, c1950s. |