List of Objects
Telling a history of our world through objects
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2000 BC - 1000 BC
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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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Fragment of pottery
This piece of pottery was found at Petra in Jordan as it's colour is the same pinky brown as the wonderful buildings at ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Pump Room Spa Water - The Pump Room
Visitors can try the hot Spa water at the fountain in the Pump Room. It contains 43 minerals and has a rather unusual ...
Contributed by Individual
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Bronze Bull, Hittite, c. 2000-1700 BCE
My mom gave this to me when I was a teenager. She got it from my grandmother at about the same age. This must have been ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Hove Amber Cup
The Hove Amber Cup is an important Bronze Age grave good, discovered inside a burial mound in Hove, Sussex in 1856.
Contributed by Museum
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The Dover Bronze Age Boat
The Bronze Age Boat dates from c. 1550 BC. Made from oak planks, it traded across the channel 3,500 years ago.
Contributed by Museum
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Pedestal Bowl
This bowl has a pedestal foot of pinkish buff pottery ware, it is decorated inside with two bands of incised parallel ...
Contributed by Museum
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Limestone figurine of girl
This is the upper half of a limestone figurine depicting a recumbent girl playing a lute. The legs are missing and it ...
Contributed by Museum
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Limestone relief
This limestone slab was found at Koptos by the eminent archaeologist Flinders-Petrie. Found on the floor of the temple ...
Contributed by Museum
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Replica Copper Armlet
A piece of adornment worn for show was a copper armlet, worn for many of the reasons people wear jewelry today.
Contributed by Museum
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Copper Flat Axe & Bronze Flat Axe
The first objects to be made of copper and bronze were axes, made in open stone moulds. Flat axes in Kilmartin have not ...
Contributed by Museum
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Bronze Blade
The blade found at Loch Glasham is unusual as daggers and blades are relitivly comman in graves. It has been ...
Contributed by Museum
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Replica Wooden Yoke
Little is known about the earliest farming implements used in Kilmartin, but a wooden yoke dated to 2000 BC survived in ...
Contributed by Museum
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Bronze age axe head
Found in pristine condition during a rock climbing trip on obscure cliffs above the A5 on Pen yr ole Wen. A very unusual ...
Contributed by Individual
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Flint Arrowhead
This barbed and tanged flint arrowhead dates from the Bronze Age and illustrates an emerging sophistication in weaponary ...
Contributed by Individual
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Statue of Ramesses II
Colossal statue of Ramesses II, one of ancient Egypt's most famous and successful pharaohs.
Contributed by The British Museum
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Canaan bottle from Jericho, Palestine
This ancient bottle came from Jericho, Palestine, at the time of the Canaanites c. 2000 BC. These kind of bottles were ...
Contributed by Museum
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Chinese Zhou ritual vessel
A Chinese bronze vessel used for making ritual offerings of food to ancestors.
Contributed by The British Museum
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Tiny one-handled pot with thumb marks
This tiny pot comes from the ancient and important biblical site of Jericho. These little jugs were popular as tomb ...
Contributed by Museum
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Neolithic flints found in Derbyshire
These flints were collected by John Leonard Waterhouse between 1920 and 1940. Most of these flints are scraping tools ...
Contributed by Museum
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Bronze Flat Axe
This flat axe was found at Boreland Farm, Inch, Stranraer, these kind of axes are some of the earliest examples of metal ...
Contributed by Museum
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Food Vessel
This vessel was found in a burial chamber. It was most likely filled with food or drink for the afterlife. There has ...
Contributed by Museum
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Statue
The owner of this bust is a geologist - the statue was dug up in a back garden in Derby. The house dated from the ...
Contributed by Individual
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Predynastic palette
Women still liked their make up 5500 years ago!
Contributed by Individual
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Egyptian statue
A naked man god that has been dated from the Egyptian era. The owner bought the item from an antiques market.
Contributed by Individual
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Minoan Bull Leaper
A bronze statue of an acrobat leaping over a bull from the island of Crete.
Contributed by The British Museum
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Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
An ancient Egyptian papyrus used by scribes – it contains 84 mathematical problems.
Contributed by The British Museum
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Mold Gold Cape
Gold cape made almost 4,000 years ago for a slim woman or child and found in a grave in North Wales.
Contributed by The British Museum
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Bronze Age ring money
Bronze age 'ring money' is a bit of a mystery. Many people believe it is proto currency (hence the name) and that people ...
Contributed by Museum
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Stone Wrist Guard
This wristguard was found in 1989 by the Clwyd-Powys Archaelogical Trust when excavating a Bronze Cairn, near Carno in ...
Contributed by Museum
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Egyptian Ibis
The Ibis bird was sacred to and associated with Thoth the God of wisdom and writing. Thoth was often represented in the ...
Contributed by Museum
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Quern Stone - Saddle Quern
This saddle quern was found in the lake in front of the house. There are crannogs (artificial lake islands built of ...
Contributed by Individual
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Stone-age multi tool
This is well fashioned with indents for thumb and fingers. Depending on how it’s held, it can be used as a hammer or a ...
Contributed by Individual
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Heart Scarab
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was an enthusiastic collector of antiquities from different cultures and ...
Contributed by Museum
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Flanged Axe Head
Found by Brian Pollard near Wells, Somerset. Originally axe heads were completely flat, but this has ridges to assist ...
Contributed by Individual
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Shabti
Shabtis are mummified statues that are found in Ancient Egyptian tombs. They represented the dead and their servants. In ...
Contributed by Museum
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Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet
This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian ...
Contributed by Museum
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Stela of Dedu
A stela is a slab of wood or stone, usually painted, inscribed or engraved and set upright. In Ancient Egypt they were ...
Contributed by Museum
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Bronze Age Cist Burial
In January 1957 a ploughman struck a large stone with his plough. Looking under the stone he saw human bones. He had ...
Contributed by Museum
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Gold Lunulae
Moon-shaped gold neck piece 4000 years old, from northern Ireland but buried with 'kings' in Cornwall
Contributed by Museum
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Column from Ihnsaya el-Medina
Red granite column from Ihnsaya el-Medina (ancient Herakleopolis Magna) A column such as this would have originally ...
Contributed by Museum
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Pithoo
These pithoi shows that the Minoans were conscious of the effects of storing food for a large community. Products such ...
Contributed by Individual
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Copper alloy armlet
The armlet was found by chance. The solid casting and incised repeat pattern are typical of the ‘Ornamental Horizon’ of ...
Contributed by Museum
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Mould for a Bronze Axe Head
A two piece clay mould for producing socketed axes. This mould was found at Little Dunagoil at the south end of Bute ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Qurneh Burial
The Qurneh royal burial is of a Queen and her child from the 17th dynasty, Ancient Egypt.
Contributed by Museum
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Bush Barrow Bronze Gold Lozenge
Gold lozenge dating to the Bronze Age and described as 'Britain's first Crown Jewels of the king of Stonehenge'.
Contributed by Museum
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The Crow Down Hoard
Bronze Age gold bracelets and armlets found by metal detectorists in Lambourn.
Contributed by Museum
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Egyptian funerary boat
The Egyptian funerary boat on display at the Ure Museum is a typical tomb offering from ancient Egypt, and symbolizes ...
Contributed by Museum
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Gold Bracelets
These gold bracelets are around 3,500 years old and date from the Bronze Age. They were part of a hoard found at Capel ...
Contributed by Museum
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The Burton Hoard
The Burton hoard is a group of important Bronze Age gold objects including rigs, bracelets and belts spectacular in its ...
Contributed by Museum