Box

Description

Oblong wooden box, covered with very worn brown leather and lined with black dotted scraps of newspaper, with a C-shaped iron wire handle on top, made by French prisoners in Edinburgh Castle

Museum reference

H.UD 63

Object name

Box

Production information

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

c. 1790 - 1815

Materials

Wood

Physical description

Wood; brown leather; newspaper; iron wire