A History of the World via Greenfield and Ruthin
Post categories: Denbighshire,ÌýHistory & Memories,ÌýRhyl
| 13:55 UK time, Friday, 10 September 2010
Joint ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ and British Museum project, A History of the World in 100 Objects returns to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 on Monday for the concluding part of the series which has featured .
It picks up from the 15th Century starting with old money - pieces of eight - and global trade and travel.
The project highlights other examples of this like the copper manillas - a Portugese word for bracelet - made in the mills in Greenfield, Flintshire, and which returned to these shores after being traded in Sierra Leone.
Scotch Cap, a device to stop prisoners communicating, courtesy Ruthin Gaol
They were produced in the 18th Century specifically to trade in Africa, in exchange for products, such as ivory and were part of the triangular trade between the UK, Africa and the Carribean, a trade route which included slaves.
added the information about the manillas to the website supporting the project, along with other local interest groups, people and museums.
Other local objects include the macabre mask known as a Scotch Cap which prisoners in Ruthin Gaol were forced to wear to stop them communicating with other inmates.
A personal favourite is the .
To think something so ornate was fashioned 3,000 years ago - and why and how did it find its way to this corner of the world, much like ?
Part of the project has been to allow people to share and upload images of artefacts they feel are important.
Contributor and archaeologist Erin Robinson, who has been working on Denbighshire's project, added a photo of a stone with a 90-year-old inscription found during a dig on Penycloddiau hillfort on the Clwydian Range in 2008.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Local covered the story at the time, - and
There's still time to add an object.
And, as part of the project, so-called are being run by museums to encourage children to get involved with local history.
