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Description: | Roman and some Pre-Roman material include 8500 ceramic items, including brick, figurines, pottery vessels and tiles. Metal items include bronze, copper, gold, iron, lead, pewter and silver. Glass includes beads, vessels and window glasses. There is also industrial residue and stonework including architectural fragments, inscriptions and sculpture. The organic material is of good quality and in addition to large quantities of bone, there is basketry, timber, textiles and leatherwork.
Most material has been acquired from excavations before 1908 and from over the last few hundred years, but of particular interest are the two major excavations carried out by the Lancaster University Archaeological Unit at Ribchester Graveyard in 1989 and Ribblesdale Mill in 1990. Excavations have revealed a range of well-preserved organic material and further details about the site layout.
Models have also been acquired to aid interpretation of the Roman occupation of the North and particularly Ribchester. | Subjects: | Archaeology | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Riverside
Ribchester
Preston,
PR3 3XS | Telephone: | 01254 878 261 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2377 | Go to resource |
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