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Description: | Particularly strong in Neolithic, Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon grave groups from burial mounds in the Peak District especially the core collection formed by Thomas Bateman between 1841-1861, notably the Benty Grange Helmet, the first Anglo-Saxon helmet to be found in Britain. The Bateman Collection includes antiquarian archives of volumes of letters, notebooks and watercolours. Additions of note are the Heathcote Collection of Bronze Age finds from burial sites on Stanton Moor, excavated material from cairns on the East Moors and Wigber Low, DerbyshireImportant material from mesolithic site at Deepcar, Sheffield
About 500,000 items with 30% from Sheffield area, 47 % from The Peak Disrict of Derbyshire, 13% British and 10% non British ranging from the Palaeolithic to the19th century. Particularly strong in Neolithic, Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon grave groups from burial mounds in the Peak District especially the core collection formed by Thomas Bateman between 1841-1861, notably the Benty Grange Helmet, the first Anglo-Saxon helmet to be found in Britain. The Bateman Collection includes antiquarian archives of volumes of letters, notebooks and watercolours. Additions of note are the Heathcote Collection of Bronze Age finds from burial sites on Stanton Moor, excavated material from cairns on the East Moors and Wigber Low, Derbyshire; Armstrong, Harris and Radley collections; finds from Roystone Grange, Mam Tor hillfort, Brough Roman Fort, Big Moor- Swine sty, Wormhill and Mount Pleasant, all Derbyshire and the Butcher archive of site surveys.
Important material from mesolithic site at Deepcar; querns from Wharncliffe, Sheffield manor pottery and post -medieval glass making from Gawber and Bolsterstone.
Non-British Greek and Egyptian collections of note especially the latter, but it has poor documentation. | Subjects: | Archaeology | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 0114 278 2660 | Telephone: | 0114 278 2600 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:937 | Go to resource |
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