John Evans Centenary Project (Ashmolean Museum)

Sir John Evans's Publications

Cover of L. Forrer's Biography and Bibliography of John Evans

Cover of Biography and Bibliography of Sir John Evans by L. Forrer

Sir John Evans was the author of seminal works in British numismatics and archaeology, including:

The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain (1872, a second edition, 1897)
The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain and Ireland (1881)
The Coins of the Ancient Britons (1864)

He also wrote many papers on archaeological, geological and numismatic subjects, including the papers on flint implements in the Drift.

The following bibliographies of his works are available on this website:

Work on the Ancient Bronze Implements book involved other members of the family. Fanny and Alice helped with the proofs and Emma produced an index. The exhausted family then took themselves off for a holiday on the Continent, attending a prehistoric conference in Lisbon. This page shows a spearhead from Matlock in Evans's own collection. He included and illustrated objects from collections other than his own.

This is a page from a paper entitled 'On a hoard of Bronze Objects found in Wilburton Fen, near Ely', presented to the Society of Antiquaries by John Evans in 1883. We believe Evans made working drawings of some of the objects.

F.W. Fairholt, then later Charles Swain from London produced the engravings.

drawings of the hoard from Ely

Further References / Links:

Forrer, L. Sir John Evans, Biographie et Bibliographie, (1909) published in French
The bibliographies listed on the website are based on those published in this work. Errors and uncertain references which have been discovered in the bibliographies compiled by Forrer are noted on this website.

Joan Evans, Time and Chance: The Story of Arthur Evans and His Forebears (1943)