What can we discover from exploring Roman Milestones? There are over 100 inscribed Roman milestones known about in Britain. Together, they give us a huge amount of information about the Romans – their roads, networks and population centres, as well as details of...
Exploring axe heads from Prehistoric Britain Despite being thousands of years old, Stone Age tools can often be found in museum collections around the country. Axes would have been an especially vital to the agricultural revolution during the Neolithic or New Stone...
Explore the Scarborough Ware of Scarborough Fair You’re very likely to have heard the folksong ‘Scarborough Fair’, but what you may not realise is quite what Scarborough Fair was, or why it was important. During medieval times, Scarborough on the...
Exploring Brooch Designs from Roman Britain Brooches were extremely popular in Roman times, worn regardless of gender. Whilst today we might use a variety of fastenings, like zips or press studs, the Romans often used brooches or ‘fibulae’ to fasten...
Viking Gold Ring Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes This gold ring was found on a farm near Sedbergh. Jewellery was popular with the Vikings and is occasionally unearthed by archaeologists and metal detectorists. But this ring was found by a farmer, Mr Airy, whilst...