Bronze Work Box
A small, lidded, cylindrical box discovered buried with a child of about eight years of age. It was probably a workbox or needle box and the remnants of an attached chain suggest that it could have been ...
Bronze-bound Wooden Bucket
Bucket with a decorated iron handle, made of wooden staves bound with four bronze hoops. This bucket was discovered in a child’s grave.
6th Century A.D.
122mm x 130mm diameter
1922/23 excavations ...
Bronze-bound Wooden Bucket
Bucket with wooden staves and bound with three bronze hoops found in a female grave.
6th Century A.D.
120mm x 140mm diameter
Butter Pot
A very early example of an earthenware butter pot from Finsbury. It is a narrow vessel almost straight from base to rim. The pot is of a red-brown colour with a yellow-green glaze on the rim and interior. ...
Clifford Chambers. Skeletons at Milcote
Skeletons found at Milcote, Clifford Chambers. 1886
Coin
Roman bronze coin, c.268-273 Diameter 11mm This coin was found at Milverton Station, Milverton in 1885. The obverse features the radiate bust of Victorinus (268-270) facing right. The reverse features ...
Coin
Coin of the Gallic Empire c.268-271 Diameter 18mm
This coin was found at Milverton Station, Milverton in 1885. The obverse features the bust of Victorinus (268-270) facing right. The reverse features ...
Collection of metal objects
Iron arrowhead (top left) bronze tweezers and four iron girdle-buckles.
6th Century A.D.
Tweezers 67mm; Arrowhead 53mm
1922/23 excavations
Cremation Urns
Black earthenware cremation urns with decoration. Burnt bones were placed inside these urns. The pots were hand made (i.e. they were not made on a potter’s wheel) and were decorated by incising and stamping ...
Disc Brooch
A circular brooch with a design of five punched ring and dot decoration.
AD 410 - AD 600
Dish
A Roman dish excavated from London Wall in 1910. An open bowl on a short pedestal foot, made of burnished black fabric.
Drug Jar
Drug Jar
English
c.1700
An English delft, tin-glazed earthenware, drug jar discovered during the London Wall excavations. It is a round straight-sided vessel, with a rim and base curving out from the ...
Egyptian Coffin Artefact
This carved wooden face is from an Ancient Egyptian coffin. Ancient Egyptian coffins were often painted with idealised images of the deceased.
Egyptian painted wood panel, upper section
This panel, from the tomb of Djed-Khonsu-lues-Ankh, is around 2,500 years old.
Together with the bottom section of the panel, it is a prayer asking for a supply of beer, bread and oxen for use in the ...
English Farthing
Coin from Tysoe - English copper 'rose farthing', c.1625-1649 Diameter 13mm The obverse features a doubled-arched crown over two crossed sceptres which break into the outer circle. The outer circle bears ...
English Fourpence
English silver Fourpence or Groat, 1559 - 1578
Diameter 24mm
The obverse features the bust of Queen Elizabeth I facing left within a central ring. The bust on this example is very worn. The inscription ...
Feeding Pot
A Roman tetina feeding pot (also possibly used as a lamp filler) excavated at Smithfield, London. The pot has a globular body with a narrow lipped neck and a small spout on the shoulder of the vessel....
Gold polyhedral socketed terminal (‘bobble’)
We do not know what this bobble was once attached to, perhaps a cloak pin. A lot of work went into making this bobble, so it must have belonged to somebody rich.
Acquired with the assistance of the ...