Bloody 'ell - that's fantastic!
Will be on show next year as well -
The drawing, recently identified by the art historian Christian Heck, has never been exhibited, but according to the Art Newspaper it will be seen next year in an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, marking the 300th anniversary of the Society of Antiquaries.
Think Maev Kennedy got this bit wrong though -
An Anglo Saxon poet wondered about the origin of the stones...
The stones in the Anglo-Saxon poem The Ruin* are generally believed to be those of Roman Bath.
* "Well-wrought this wall: Wierds broke it.
The stronghold burst...
Snapped rooftrees, towers fallen,
the work of the Giants, the stonesmiths,
mouldereth.
Rime scoureth gatetowers
rime on mortar.
Shattered the showershields, roofs ruined,
age under-ate them.
And the wielders and wrights?
Earthgrip holds them - gone, long gone,
fast in gravesgrasp while fifty fathers
and sons have passed
Wall stood,
grey lichen, red stone..."
