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Related content for the gallery "Enlightenment: The Birth of Archaeology"

Related highlight objects

  • Axes from the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages
  • Becket casket
  • Bridle-bit from the Polden Hill hoard
  • Bronze medal of William Stukeley and Stonehenge
  • Burial urn
  • Dr Woodward's shield
  • Frontispiece from Revd James Douglas, Nenia Britannica, a book
  • Hoxne handaxe
  • Meyrick and Smith, The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, a book
  • Pointed flint handaxe
  • Samian ware pottery
  • Silver 'thistle' brooch
  • Terrets from the Polden Hill hoard
  • The Stockbridge urn
  • Young satyr on an altar with Bucrania and garlands

Related world cultures

  • Enlightenment Europe

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