List of Objects
Telling a history of our world through objects
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4000 BC - 2000 BC
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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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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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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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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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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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Papyrus
Papyrus makes us think of a long long time ago and how clever the ancient people were.We tried to make our own papyrus ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Burbage Map
A large sculptured boulder of local granite showing the engraved peaks of Croft and Huncote and those of Stoney Stanton ...
Contributed by Individual
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Qau Bead-Net Dress
This bead-net dress was found by Guy Brunton in the Qau cemeteries during his excavations of the 1920s. Possibly ...
Contributed by Museum
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Axe Head
The axe head was found near Castle Sween, North Knapdale. It was made during the Neolithic period and is some 5000 years ...
Contributed by Museum
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Pottery Vessal, Benderloch Urn
The pot is a type known to prehistoric pottery specialists as a carboned urn so called because of its decoration. This ...
Contributed by Museum
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Carved Standing Stone
This carved stone, although found in a burial cairn in Kilmartin Glen, probably long predates its use as a grave marker. ...
Contributed by Museum
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Foot Print
This was found by the contributor at a known neolithic site outside Newtownards, Co. Down in 2009.
Contributed by Individual
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Amphora
This amphora would have been used for storing food. It was found by the when he was snorkelling off the Turkish coast ...
Contributed by Individual
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Neolithic Polystone Axe
This would have been a multi-purpose working tool, common to the period as people cleared the forests and fashioned ...
Contributed by Individual
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Fragment of a Neolithic jadeite axehead
Secretive and powerful, this fragment of a Neolithic axehead is believed to be a mythical stone of great symbolism. ...
Contributed by Museum
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Neolithic Axe Head
This small stone axehead is made from volcanic tuff and dates from the neolithic period. It would have been used, with ...
Contributed by Museum
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Beaker Basket ornaments Leicestershire
Gold was the first metal worked by man. Gold objects were high status, reserved for important people. We have Gold ...
Contributed by Museum
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A bronze Assyrian statue of a priest
A bronze Assyrian statue of a priest
Wearing a "Konakes" a typical dress of that period
it has a lot of beautifull ...
Contributed by Individual
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Scottish carved stone ball
Carved stone balls are mysterious and uniquely Scottish objects. They are thought to date from the late Neolithic ...
Contributed by Museum
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Carved Stone Ball
The Carved Stone Balls are distinctly Scottish objects with the majority found in Aberdeenshire. However several have ...
Contributed by Museum
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Ripple Flaked Arrowhead
This is a special piece, probably owned by a rich powerful individual. Made in Yorkshire and ended up in Galloway ...
Contributed by Museum
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Bell Barrow Amber Necklace
The necklace is comprised of 10 shale beads and two shale rings found with 11 amber and 10 faience beads, found with a ...
Contributed by Museum
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Symbol of the first universal god.
A pottery piece from a palace of Pharoah Akhenaten. He is the first known exponent of the 'one universal god' idea. He ...
Contributed by Individual
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Early writing tablet
Clay tablet from the ancient Middle East with some of the world’s earliest writing - a record of workers' beer rations
Contributed by The British Museum
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Jade axe
A 5,000 year old polished stone axe found in Canterbury but made in the alps.
Contributed by The British Museum
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Indus seal
Seal used for making impressions that led to the discovery of the Indus civilisation in Pakistan and India
Contributed by The British Museum
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King Den's sandal label
Label made from hippopotamus ivory and attached to the sandals of the Egyptian ruler Pharaoh Den
Contributed by The British Museum
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Egyptian clay model of cattle
A model of four cattle buried in a grave in Egypt, African descendants of cows first tamed after the Ice Age.
Contributed by The British Museum
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Axe head from Whitepark Bay
I think it is an axe head from the Neolithic period. We found it in one of the rivers that runs down onto Whitepark Bay ...
Contributed by Individual
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Standard of Ur
The Standard of Ur is from one of the world’s first cities. It shows scenes from the life of a king of Ur, ancient Iraq
Contributed by The British Museum
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Fossil in black limestone
In the late 1950's my Father became interested in geology and on an outing to Lake Vyrnwy he had his Observer book of ...
Contributed by Individual
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Late Neolithic scraper
i found this on Good Friday, 1997 while out for a walk near Marlborough, Wilts. Something made me stop in mid-stride and ...
Contributed by Individual
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Dooey's Cairn pottery
These four pots were excavated from the Neolithic tomb, known as Dooey's cairn, in Dunloy in County Antrim. Dating to ...
Contributed by Museum
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Dooey’s Cairn pottery
These four pots were excavated from the Neolithic tomb, known as Dooey’s cairn, in Dunloy in County Antrim. Dating to ...
Contributed by Museum
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Neolithic Handaxe
Found by Brian Pollard in a field in Honiley, Warwickshire. It was made in the quarries of Penmaenmawr in North Wales, ...
Contributed by Individual
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Flint from East Riding
This flint could be pre historic. It was the mother in law’s and was handed down to the contributor 90 years ago.
Contributed by Individual
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Cosmetic Palette
Cosmetics palettes like this one were used to grind cosmetic paints, such as galena or green malachite, with a pebble. ...
Contributed by Museum
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Early Bronze Age Burial pots
These Bronze Age food vessels were found during an excavation of two early Bronze Age burial cairns at Turf Knowe in the ...
Contributed by Museum
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The Malone Hoard
A hoard of finely polished stone axes found at Danesfort, on the Malone Road, Belfast. The axes were found during work ...
Contributed by Museum
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Polished neolithic stone axe head
Lucy Harnden brought this polished stone axe head to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Guernsey's outside broadcast event at the Guernsey Museum. It ...
Contributed by Individual
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Neolithic stone axe
This stone axe, dating to around 3000 BC is an outstanding example of axes produced from rock quarried in the area.
Contributed by Museum
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Neolithic Food Vessel
This food vessel was found upside down in a Neolithic burial cairn at Glenvoidean, Isle of Bute. This cairn was used for ...
Contributed by Individual
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Jadeite Axe
A polished stone axe made from green jadeite from the Alps
Contributed by Museum
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Stone Age axe-head
Rachel Mottram from Sheffield has this Stone Age axe-head which she thinks is 5000 years old. "My father found it in a ...
Contributed by Individual
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Birdlip Grave Group, Bronze Mirror
A group of Iron-Age treasures buried around AD50 along with their owner.
Contributed by Museum
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Mrs Proctor's Flint Scraper
Bronze age scrapper found in Mrs Proctors Garden
Contributed by Individual
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Westray Stone
Pecked spiral patterns on large block of local stone, in two pieces..
Contributed by Museum
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Bronze Age Arrowhead
This flint arrowhead, made in France, was imported to Guernsey and deposited in a burial in the early Bronze Age.
Contributed by Museum
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Windmill Hill Pot
A restored Neolithic pot from the causewayed enclosure at Windmill Hill.
Contributed by Museum