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Title: Archaeology - Ipswich Museum [Go to resource]
Description: -The collections covering Early Man include:N F Layard Collection: Foxhall Road Ipswich excavations 1902- 5, White Colne (Essex) Upper Palaeolithic site 1927, Ste Gertrude, Holland, neolithic workshops 1924-30, J Reid Moir Collections: The sub-Crag specimens which informed the debate over Tertiary Man, Large groups from Runton, Cromer, Darmsden, etc, illustrating putative pre- Chellean industries East Anglian palaeolithic type-sites, notably Hoxne, Foxhall Road, Barnham, Bramford, Ipswich brickfield researches, including 'Ipswich Man', Ivry Street long blade industry and other post-glacial series. Other Excavated Archives: Barnham Heath L. P. excavation material: High Lodge, Mildenhall (Armstrong & others): Sproughton blade industry with bone harpoons: Grimes Graves (Kendall & Armstrong): Wangford (Mesolithic); Collection of East Anglian palaeoliths.;East Anglian, British and World reference collection of lithics: Large series from Breuil (Chelles and Abbeville), Garrod (French Upper Palaeolithic), Wadi Guzzeh palaeoliths, A S Barnes (French Mousterian type-sites), Underwood (Dovercourt bifaces), S Fenton Snr (Mildenhall area), Percy Martin (Southern English, esp. Farnham biface and Broom chert series), J. P. T. Burchell (Baker's Hole, Swanscombe, Dartford and Sligo assemblages), L Leakey (Oldowan obsidians), Wayland (Ugandan), Seton Karr & Petrie (Fayoum), Sainty (Norfolk various), Absolom (casts & implements),;Romano- British material includes: Roman pottery, including type production-centre kilns and associated pottery, Castle Hill Roman Villa and Bath-house. Romano-British votive and religious artefacts from Suffolk, including Icklingharn pewter hoard and lead font, unusual animal and human figurines, Attis plaque, the 'Cavenham Crowns';The important collections of Saxon material include: Hadleigh Road pagan Saxon cemetery material (Archaeologia 1907), Layard Collections (1898-1935) Material from Sutton Hoo royal Anglo-Saxon grave assemblages excavated 1938: Excavated by Museum staff. Middle Saxon Ipswich Ware, excavation type material, kiln products, and complete vessel/stamped sherd series. High quality Anglo-Saxon material including the Ipswich hanging-bowl, Byzantine patera, styca hoard, cremation cauldrons and urns, turnulus products, Pakenham domestic assemblage including loom, Butley cauldron chain, silver disc-brooches, dated late hoards, an Ipswich Mint type series for c.970-1210, Bawdsey gaming-piece Boss Hall Anglo-Saxon cemetery;Mediaeval artefacts including ceramics, silver coin hoards, and monastic excavations. Other Medieval material includes a panel painting of St Blaise, two 15th Century panel paintings from high-status retables, a Limoges processional crucifix and sundry alabasters, a large pair of late 15th Century 'Steyned Cloths' from Ipswich depicting Labours of Hercules, pax instruments, a decorative leather pyx (cI4th) and latten chrismatory, ecclesiastical carvings of English and Flemish work.;Ancient Egyptian Antiquities (& Early Mediterranean) which were obtained by subscription to the Egypt Exploration Fund, plus some private collections. Cartonnage mask of Titus Flavius Demetrios, excavated by Petrie at Hawara in 1888. Loaned to 'Ancient Faces' Exhibition B.M.): Side of a coffin of a Priest of Mont (25-26 Dyn.) 21 Dyn. mummy-case and lid Scarab of Shes hi (15-16 Dyn.). Personal collections of Carter, Petrie, Caton Thompson, Ray Lankester, Seton Karr and Gayer Anderson. Subscriptions were 1904 (Beni Hassan), 1914 (Harageh & Lahun), 1921 (Sedment & Gurob), 1922 (Abydos) and 1931 (Beth-Pelet). E J Schwartz Collection (300 Egyptian items) The Mediterranean collection (from various sources) includes Cypriot, Etruscan, Mycenean, Boeotian and Attic ornamental ceramics, Roman lamps, Maenas flasks, bronze and terracotta figurines, Palestinian blades, three Nimrud ivories excavated by Mallowan, and two Etruscan engraved mirrors - Source: Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections Address: High Street Ipswich Suffolk United Kingdom, IP1 3QH FAX: 01473 281 274 Telephone: 01473 213 761 Identifier: oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6222 Go to resource More Like this...
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