List of Objects
Telling a history of our world through objects
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Material / Stone
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Sin Eater's Grave Ratlinghope Shropshire
It is the grave of the last known Sin-Eater in England, a practice peculiar to the England/Welsh marches. Richard ...
Contributed by Individual
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Statuette of Jupiter
This small figure, height 92mm is probably Romano-British
Contributed by Museum
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Portion of a limestone Stelae
This is the upper left-hand portion of a limestone stelae of Pahemy. A Stelae is a tall slab usually made of stone or ...
Contributed by Museum
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Neolithic Stone Axe
This Neolithic stone axe was found within a prehistoric pit at Clifton (Worcestershire) during an archaeological project ...
Contributed by Individual
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17th century pub bowls
These were dug up when excavating our back garden for a redesign - the garden has been part of the former pub we live ...
Contributed by Individual
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Flint arrowhead
This was found on the northern slope of Ingleborough mountain in the Dales, N. Yorks, below the major landslip. It was ...
Contributed by Individual
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Fragment of the Berlin Wall
I was 11 years old when the wall came down; though my understanding of the political meaning was largely vague, the ...
Contributed by Individual
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Pre-historic hand-axe 700,000 years old
This flint handaxe was the first human tool found securely stratified within significantly early geological deposits.
Contributed by Museum
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Olduvai handaxe
This handaxe made of green volcanic lava represents a tradition of tool-making which began about 1.6 million years ago. ...
Contributed by The British Museum
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Marcus du Sautoy's Board Game
This a replica of the game found by Leonard Woolley in the Royal Cemetery at Ur. Examples of this 'Game of Twenty ...
Contributed by Individual
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A flint hand axe
Until the nineteenth century, most people believed humans had been living on Earth for only a few thousand years. This ...
Contributed by Museum
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Piece of the Berlin Wall
I bought this fragment in Berlin in 1990. In Pariser Platz, next to the Brandenburg Gate, it was then possible to buy ...
Contributed by Individual
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A Roman tombstone from Cirencester
Roman tombstones tell you something about the lives of the soldiers, slaves, men, women and children who lived in ...
Contributed by Museum
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Early Cigarette Lighter
It didn't occur to me until some time after I bought it, but this is the direct ancestor of the disposable plastic ...
Contributed by Individual
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Springbok stand crest
In 1943, in recognition of the part played by British troops in the liberation of Egypt from the threat posed by the ...
Contributed by Individual
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Bust of Horatio Nelson, Beckford's Tower
Very few people were allowed inside the world that William Beckford created at Fonthill Abbey, but in 1800 a famous ...
Contributed by Individual
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Wall of letter boxes, Bath Postal Museum
The oldest of these early wall boxes, dated 1857, is painted green and was soon replaced because it lacked a protective ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Stone Cist – The Roman Baths
A lidded box made of bathstone, containing cremated bones, probably a child's. Romans preferred cremations in the first ...
Contributed by Individual
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Sacred Spring – The Roman Baths
At the very heart of the site is the Sacred Spring. Hot water at a temperature of 46°C rises here at the rate of ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Great Bath – The Roman Baths
This magnificent centrepiece of the Roman Baths is a pool, lined with 45 sheets of lead, and filled with hot spa water. ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Gorgon's Head Pediment, Roman Baths
The temple pediment is one of the most famous discoveries from Roman Britain; it is filled with emblems and was full of ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Cross Bath, Thermae Bath Spa
Where the Cross Bath now stands, the Celts revered their goddess Sul, in whose honour the Romans named their spa town, ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Vaulted Ceiling of Bath Abbey
The stone vaulting above the Abbey's Chancel dates from the early 1500s. It was built by Master architects Robert and ...
Contributed by Individual
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Marble Table - Beckford's Tower & Museum
A monumental console table designed by the architect H. E. Goodridge for William Beckford's retreat at Lansdown Tower. ...
Contributed by Individual
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Queen Square Balustrade - BOBC
These surviving fragments are all that can now be seen of the balustrade that once enclosed the central space of Queen ...
Contributed by Individual
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Native American Arrow Heads
A collection of Native American Arrowheads. Most are from the Wampanoag and Mohegan nations. In addition to ...
Contributed by Individual
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Flint Find. Shaped Like Mammoth Skull,
This brown flint object was found, buried within a rabbit warren, in North East Norfolk. Several other knapped flint ...
Contributed by Individual
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Slate
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
NORTH CORNWALL MUSEUM, CAMELFORD. Slate ...
Contributed by Museum
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Handaxe found on Scafell Pike
My partner and I found this handaxe during a walk on Scafell Pike in October 2009. We did not really know much about the ...
Contributed by Individual
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Bude fossil fish
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
BUDE, THE CASTLE. Three hundred million ...
Contributed by Museum
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Banksy's Paint Pot Angel
Banksy’s urban art has a universal and timeless appeal - the bandit and folk hero fighting corporate culture.
Contributed by Museum
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Harlyn Bay cemetery finds
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
PADSTOW MUSEUM. A holed amulet of ...
Contributed by Museum
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Glasney College finds
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
PENRYN MUSEUM. The two carved leaf ...
Contributed by Museum
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Flints (arrowheads, spearheads)
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
REDRUTH TOWN MUSEUM. Carn Brea is an ...
Contributed by Museum
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Bronze Age saddle querns
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
WAYSIDE MUSEUM, ZENNOR. Saddle querns were ...
Contributed by Museum
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Cloam oven
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
TINTAGEL OLD POST OFFICE. Cornish kitchens ...
Contributed by Museum
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The Rashleigh Mineral Collection
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM. Cornwall's mining ...
Contributed by Museum
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Ardross Wolf
Magnificient Pictish wolf
Contributed by Museum
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Mexican football medal
THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF CORNWALL IN 100 OBJECTS'.
POLDARK MINE. Immediately after the ...
Contributed by Museum
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A Middle Palaeolithic Flint Handaxe
A small flint handaxe that was used by Neanderthals when sheltering in the caves at Creswell Crags.
Contributed by Museum
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Rudston Charioteer Mosaic
A unique Romano-British mosaic showing a victorious charioteer from a villa at Rudston in East Yorkshire.
Contributed by Museum
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Roman statuette of Silenus
This Roman bust shows an older, bearded man facing front with both arms folded across his chest, both fists clenched and ...
Contributed by Museum
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Roman inscribed gravestone from Scotland
This is the gravestone of Salamanes, who died at the age of fifteen. Professor Lawrence Keppie of the Hunterian Museum ...
Contributed by Museum
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Roman inscribed stone from Scotland
This is the lower left hand corner of a Roman commemorative stone. Professor Lawrence Keppie of the Hunterian Museum ...
Contributed by Museum
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Roman column capital from Scotland
This top from a Roman column is decorated with a carved design and some traces of red paint were also seen when it was ...
Contributed by Museum
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Roman inscribed gravestone from Scotland
This is the gravestone of Ammonius, a centurion in the First Cohort of Spaniards in the Roman army, who died in Scotland ...
Contributed by Museum
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Roman carved stone fountainhead
This Roman carved stone fountainhead was found at Bearsden Roman fort, Strathclyde Region, Scotland, and was picked by ...
Contributed by Museum
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Roman drain cover slab
This Roman drain cover slab was found at Bothwellhaugh Roman Fort, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and was picked by Shauna Joy, ...
Contributed by Museum
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Roman sculptured head of a goddess
This Roman sculptured head of a goddess was found at Bearsden Roman fort, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, and was picked by ...
Contributed by Museum
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Roman distance slab of the Sixth Legion
This Roman was found nearby the Braidfield Farm near Duntocher Fort, Strathclyde Region, Scotland and was picked by ...
Contributed by Museum