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Offerings from Wanborough Roman temple
The destruction of the Romano-Celtic temple at Wanborough in…
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Printed money envelope
The inscription on the diamonds at the top of this brightly …
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Printed money envelope
This envelope, with a colourful design on its front and a re…
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Printed money envelope
As the name xiao hongbao , literally translated as 'little r…
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Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee commemorative £5 coin
This commemorative five pound coin has been produced by the …
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Silver pattern crown (5 shillings) of Oliver Cromwell
A new coinage was issued during the English Commonwealth , w…
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Silver pattern crown of Charles II, by Thomas Simon (about 1623-65)
Thomas Simon was the most prominent medallist and seal engra…
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Silver pennies of Ethelred II
These two coins between them provide useful information on h…
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Silver penny of Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great (AD 871-99) was king of Wessex, an Anglo-Sa…
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Silver penny of Cnut (Canute)
The Anglo-Saxons did not have realistic portraits on their c…
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Silver penny of Edward 'the Elder'
When Alfred the Great died in 899, he ruled part of England,…
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Silver penny of Ethelred II
From some time in the 970s to 1180, the design of the Englis…
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Struck gold medal for the recovery of George III by Lewis Pingo
By November 1788 most of his subjects believed their king, G…
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Struck gold medal of Charles II by John Roettier: the Increase of the Navy
After the Restoration of Charles II to the throne of England…
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Struck gold medal of James I of England (VI of Scotland) by Nicholas Hilliard
Although Nicholas Hilliard is so closely associated with the…
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The Fishpool hoard
On 22 March 1966 an unusual hoard was discovered on a buildi…
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Uhlhorn Press advertising token
The Great Exhibition held at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park…
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10 guinea note, Great Yarmouth Bank
Civic emblems such as the coat of arms or seal of a town wer…
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5 guinea coin of Charles II
The embossed elephant indicates that this English coin is ma…
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Bronze goose
This goose was once a lamp lid. Similar lids with figures in…
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A prehistoric coin hoard
In 2000 a group of walkers found Roman pottery and animal bo…
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Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede, The Prayer for Peace, bronze
Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede was born in June 1943 in Ekiti, within…
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Handaxe
Mike Chambers discovered this handaxe while walking his dog …
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Skull and lower jaw of an ichthyosaur
This large skull was collected by Mary Anning (1799-1847), o…
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The Baldehildis seal ring
This tiny gold object was originally part of a finger-ring. …
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The Ruthwell Cross, illustrated in Itinerarium Septentrionale by Alexander Gordon
The Ruthwell Cross is Anglo-Saxon in orgin and dates from th…
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Shirazeh Houshiary, Round Dance, a series of 5 prints, etching and aquatint
Born in Iran in 1955, Houshiary has lived in London since 19…
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Two jade bases for a huqqa pipe
These are the bases of a pair of fine huqqa pipes, no doubt …
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Dia al-Azzawi, Blessed Tigris, fibre-glass sculpture
This sculpture has been specially created for the exhibition…
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Blue glass sugar bowl
'Sugar, one reflects back to childhood when a drink made sim…
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Bronze figurine of a Moorish cavalryman
'My initial response is to the contextualisation of the figu…
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Copies of the Basse-Yutz flagons
This pair of pottery jugs was made at Stoke-on-Trent in the …
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Copper-alloy censer
This censer was used for burning sweet-smelling incense duri…
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Death mask of George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), who was born in Dublin but …
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Drinking glass by Felix Foster
English drinking glasses of the eighteenth century represent…
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Portrait plaque of Sir William Hamilton, by Josiah Wedgwood I and Thomas Bentley
Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) was the British Envoy to th…
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Sword and scabbard end
This iron sword with scabbard end (chape) has survived in ex…
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The Chiddingly Boar
In 1999, a metal detectorist discovered this small boar. It …
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The Holcombe Mirror
In 1967 Devon Archaeological Society heard that a Roman mosa…
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The Palmerston gold chocolate cups
This pair of gold chocolate cups was created for Anne Houblo…
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The Rose Ash Bowl
This bowl was found high on the north side of Crooked Moor t…
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The Salisbury Hoard
The Salisbury Hoard is the largest group of prehistoric meta…
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The Thwaite cross
This cross was found near Thwaite, Suffolk, in 1999. It is a…
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A portrait medallion of Carl Linnaeus, by Josiah Wedgwood I and Thomas Bentley
Carl Linnaeus (1707-78) laid the foundation of modern taxono…
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Alabaster panel with a scene of the Martyrdom of St Thomas Becket
This alabaster panel shows Thomas Becket (?1118-70), Archbis…
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Amuletic figure
This small, stylized female figurine is made from copper all…
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Applied brooch
Applied brooches are composite constructions, usually consis…
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Astronomical compendium
Astronomical compendia are a collection of different, small …
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Astronomical longcase clock by Edward Cockey
Although the most successful and accomplished clockmakers te…
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Astronomical table clock by Henry Jenkins
In about 1760, Henry Jenkins published a small booklet in wh…
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Bacon Cup
This silver-gilt standing cup is one of three cups known as …
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Beaver tooth pendant
This incisor from a beaver has been set into a delicately ri…
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Bow porcelain bowl, painted by Thomas Craft
This soft-paste porcelain bowl is enamelled and gilt, and ha…
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Brandon plaque
This gold plaque was found by a fisherman by the River Ouse …
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Brass of John Langston
Memorial brasses developed in France and Germany in the thir…
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Bronze aquamanile
Aquamaniles were used for the washing of hands at table, tog…
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Bronze censer-cover
This object was discovered among a mass of gravel while digg…
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Bronze portrait bust of Sir Joseph Banks by Anne Seymour Damer
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), the noted botanist and plant c…
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Buckle from the sword belt from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
This buckle, found crushed beneath the sword, fastened the b…
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Burial urn
This handmade pottery urn (known as a Buckelurne) is similar…
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Carriage clock by Nicole Nielsen & Co.
By the beginning of the twentieth century, the carriage cloc…
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Carved ivory bust of Sir Isaac Newton by David Le Marchand
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the renowned mathematician and…
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Carved stone capital
This capital is a remnant from the priory of Lewes in Sussex…
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Cassiobury Park turret clock
From the end of the thirteenth century clocks were being ins…
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Chertsey tiles: Richard and Saladin
These belong to the largest group of tiles in The British Mu…
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Claw beaker
Claw beakers are so called because of the applied 'claws' of…
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Claw beaker
This beaker is made of a clear, light greenish glass with fe…
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Copper alloy and silver buckle and belt plate
This robust belt set, designed to secure a wide leather belt…
