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Description: | The collection comprises excavation finds, hoard material and chance finds/individual collections including the Swainson Cowper collection of Lake District antiquities. Early material includes Neolithic pottery from Lancaster and Bronze Age urns from Lancaster Moor. There are also finds from the limestone caves at Warton Crag, Kirkhead and Haverbrack. Roman material has been acquired from excavations in Lancaster and Burrow-in-Lonsdale and includes 500 coins. There are Anglo-Saxon stone crosses from Lancaster and items from Quernmoor including a log coffin. Medieval material includes 100 English coins, two dugout boats and finds from various locations such as Cockersand Abbey and Silverdale kilns. There are also 20 items of Egyptology. | Subjects: | Archaeology | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Market Square
Lancaster,
LA1 1HT | FAX: | 01524 841 692 | Telephone: | 01524 64637 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:1730 | Go to resource |
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