Pocket watch, copper alloy, John Cotsworth, London (1669-1732)
Description
Pocket watch made by John Cotsworth, London (1669−1732), found in a cesspit during an excavation at the New Town in Gorinchem (2009)
Willem Claesz Heda, Still life with watch (1629)
Details
| Description: | Zakclock Front: around the hand axis: COTHSWORTH LONDON Reverse: Jo COTSWORTH LONDON |
| Material: | Copper alloy |
| Production: | England, London, John Cothsworth |
| Dating: | 1669-1732 |
| Dimensions: | 4 x 2 cm (diameter x thickness) |
| Location: | Gorinchem, Nieuwstad 7a t/md (2009) |
| Find number: | 32745V45-m03 |
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Takes place
| Archis number(s): | Case Identifiers: test trenches: 2222691100 (32072) excavation: 2227398100 (32745) |
| Topographic Map: | 38G |
| Coordinates: | 126.320/426.755 |
| Toponym: | Nieuwstad 7a to d |
| City: | Gorinchem |
| Local authority: | Gorinchem |
| Province: | Zuid-Holland |
| Type of research: | IVO-P and DO |
| Executor: | Hollandia Archaeologists |
| Project Manager: | S. Dautzenberg |
| Client: | Construction company J. van Daalen |
| Competent authority: | Municipality of Gorinchem |
| Start of investigation: | 26-11-2008 (IVO-P), 6-1-2009 (TH) |
| Finds & documentation: | Municipal depot for archaeology Gorinchem |
| IN: | https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zrz-brmt |
Documentation
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Hoogendijk, T. (2009) Gorinchem | New Town, in: Archaeological Chronicle of South Holland 2009 41, p. 11-16. flipbook | PDF (5,61 MB) |
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Hoogendijk, T. (2011) Inventory field research by means of test trenches (IVO-P) and an archaeological excavation (AO), Gorinchem Nieuwstad 7 a/md, Hollandia series 333, Zaandijk. flipbook | PDF (31,69 MB) |
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Hoogendijk, T. (2011) Discarded household effects of a lieutenant colonel, in: Western home 60, p. 314-317. flipbook | PDF (1,14 MB) |
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Hoogendijk, T. (2018) Richly filled cesspools on the Kazerneplein and at the Nieuwstad, in: F. Cerutti, R. Mulder, B. Stamkot & A. de Vries (eds.), Ten centuries of Gorinchem. History of a Dutch city, Utrecht, p. 240-241. WorldCat |
| Material: | Copper alloy |
| Period: | New Age B:1650-1850 AD |
| Application: | Personal property |
| Location: | Nieuwstad 7a t/md (2009) |
