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Description: | The collections cover prehistory to recent with about 2.75 million items built up since 1825 from excavation, survey and finds. Early collections included gifts from J. Stevenson,(Markshall Anglo-Saxon cemetery), Rev. Happ,( Bronze Age hoard from Carleton Rode), Sir Henry Rider Haggard donated Ancient Greek material, and Robert Fitch FSA, a very eminent antiquarian and Norfolk personality, gave over 1,000 items and other material from E.M. Beloe. 20th century material is mainly from excavation especially the Roman town of Venta Icenorum, between 1929-35, in Thetford by Group-Captain Knocker in the 1950s, Castle Acre Castle in the 1980s and Spong Hill Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the 1970s-80s and soon the archive from Norwich Castle Mall excavation, the largest urban excavation in Europe.
The Ancient Egyptian Collection comprises 464 artefacts and this collection is described separately. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6621 | Go to resource |
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