Watercolour painting
This watercolour was painted for a relative of James Crozier, HMS Terror's captain. In the painting, Captain Crozier is going across to HMS Erebus for a conference prior to their...
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Fragment
This shows a quail chick and possibly the feet on an owl. The quail chick is the hieroglyph for the sound value ‘oo’ (for which we use W or U)....
Leaf point
This tool may have formed spear point. We cannot be sure if this technology belonged to the Neanderthals but their date in excess of 36,000 years ago predates any firm...
Leaf point
This tool may have formed spear point. We cannot be sure if this technology belonged to the Neanderthals but their date in excess of 36,000 years ago predates any firm...
Statuette
Moulded figure of a young sculptor in Italian Renaissance costume at work chiselling the face of a satyr from a block of stone....
Figure
The figure is of a semi-nude male in a sitting or fallen position, supporting himself with one hand. He has a wound in the ribs and on the base by...
Paperweight
Inlaid paperweights like this may have been made by apprentices who were learning the skills needed to create more complex items....
Scottish wildcat
Wildcats are elusive carnivores that are now confined to Scotland. Persecution, habitat destruction and breeding with feral cats have led to critically low numbers of only 100 individuals remaining in...
Wavellite
Dr William Wavell born in Horwood, Barnstaple discovered Wavellite in 1805. This example of Wavellite has radiating acicular crystals on siltstone and is most likely from the High Down Quarry,...
Fragment
The fragment shows a selection of hieroglyphs and a sphinx with the head of a pharaoh, the body of a lion and the wings of a hawk. The lion represents...