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Description: | Material in the collection includes the 'Poulton Elk' dating from the last Ice Age, Bronze Age Cinerary Urns from Bleasdale, Late Bronze Age excavation items from Preston Docks and jewellery from the Claughton Viking Burial. There is also the Weld collection of prehistoric stone tools from around the world, an amount of Egyptian material and also Greek/Hellenistic pottery. The numismatic collections include a collection of Greek and Roman coins of local and regional provenance and also parts of the Hackensall and Rossall Hoards, plus part of the Cuerdale Hoard of Viking, Anglo-Saxon and Frankish coins, the Prestwich hoard of English coins 871-926AD and the St Anne's and Whittingham hoards of Tudor and Stuart coins. | Subjects: | Archaeology | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Market Square
Preston PR1 2PP
Preston Lancashire Great Britain (UK),
PR1 2PP | FAX: | 01772 886 764 | Telephone: | 01772 258 248 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:1990 | Go to resource |
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