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Description: | -The collections include material from the neolithic period onwards, both stray finds and excavated material.;Models, tools and equipment illustrating local inshore fishing techniques. Lifeboat memorabilia.;Collection of paintings, watercolours and drawings, both topographical scenes an works by artists who have visited or lived in Aldeburgh.;Photographs of Aldeburgh and nearby villages, including some showing the disastrous flood of 1953.;Printed ehemera of local interest. Maps and diagrams illustrative of the Town's history and the effects of coastal erosion.;Small collection of local flora, birds, butterflies and moths found in the locality.The Museum collections include some objects from the Anglo-Saxon ship burial excavated at Snape in 1862. There are also some good quality creamation urns from the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Suffolk United Kingdom,
IP15 5BT | Telephone: | 01728 453295 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6247 | Go to resource |
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