Compare prehistoric axes, from jadeite and flint to bronze

Compare prehistoric axes, from jadeite and flint to bronze

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 lead mining with a waterwheel from the Dales

Explore lead mining with a waterwheel from the Dales

Waterwheel from the Providence Mine, Kettlewell Dales Countryside Museum Kettlewell in the Yorkshire Dales is built on rocks that are rich in minerals. These minerals have been mined for centuries and the products sold for profit. Until 1875, there was a lot of mining...
Why are ammonites so important to palaeontology?

Why are ammonites so important to palaeontology?

Click on the photo to enlarge this ammonite fossil from The Seaboard Centre in the Highlands of Scotland. Making sense of ammonite fossils What are ammonite fossils? Ammonites are extinct sea creatures with a spiral shell that lived millions of years ago. Today, they...
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