Bronze 'Stud'
This worn disc-headed bronze stud was old when it was placed into the bag at the Cunning Woman’s left hip. It may have been an heirloom or amulet. The other surface is plain.
AD 410 - AD 600
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
Bust of George Eliot - side
This bust in Parian ware depicts George Eliot, and is inscribed E-L-I-O-T at its base. It was sculpted by H.L.A Willis, who worked in Stoke-on-Trent in the early twentieth century.
George Eliot (born ...
Butcher's Shop model
This is a polychrome painted wooden model of a butcher's shop in a glazed box. The figures of the butcher and his boy stand outside the shop surrounded by joints of meat. Two trees made of grasses are ...
Butcher's Shop model - detail of boy
This is a polychrome painted wooden model of a butcher's shop in a glazed box. The figures of the butcher and his boy stand outside the shop surrounded by joints of meat. Two trees made of grasses are ...
Butcher's Shop model - detail of butcher
Polychrome wood model of a butcher's shop, the meat displayed hanging outside the shop with the figures of the butcher and his boy. Two trees made of grasses stand either side of the house. In a glazed ...
Calabash Bowl
This is a half gourd bowl from Ghana. It is decorated with carved and white painted snakes and birds. Strings of pale blue beads with one gold bead are attached near the rim.
Calabash Bowl
This is a half gourd bowl from Ghana. It is decorated with carved and white painted animals, birds, flowers and weapons. Strings of dark blue and gold beads are attached near the rim.
Calabash Bowl
This is a half gourd bowl from Ghana. It is decorated with carved and white painted fish and lizards. Strings of black beads are attached near the rim.
Calabash Bowl
This is a half gourd bowl from Ghana. It is decorated with carved and white painted palm trees and snakes.
Calabash Bowl
This is a half gourd bowl from Ghana. It is decorated with carved and white painted animals and snakes.
Calabash Bowl
This is a half gourd bowl from Ghana. It is decorated with carved and white painted geometric shapes. A string of red beads is attached at the rim.
Cameo
A white on brown cameo made of an oval shaped piece of shell. It is decorated with the head of a woman with swans and snakes in her hair, c.1850-1899.
Cameo
A white on brown cameo made of an oval shaped piece of shell. It depicts two women set against a night sky, with a dove and an owl in the foreground, c.1850-1899.
Cameo
A white on brown cameo made of an oval shaped piece of shell. It depicts the portraits of a man, said to be Lorenzo de Medici, and a woman, c.1850-1899. The Medici family, from Florence, were very powerful ...
Candlestick
One of a pair of candlesticks typical of those found in a wealthy home, c.1600-1799.