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...
Click on the photo to enlarge this Roman pot from Aldborough Roman Site. Making sense of Roman ‘Smith Pots’ We can find out lots about life in the past by examining objects like these – even if they’re not complete. Archaeologists often uncover fragments...
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...
Explore Prehistoric ‘worked’ flint It is relatively common to find prehistoric ‘worked’ flint in areas where early humans lived. Finding examples, however, is still exciting. Such pieces bring us into direct contact with prehistoric people,...
Exploring Stone Age hammer heads Despite being thousands of years old, Stone Age tools can often be found in museum collections around the country. Such items were highly practical and would have been commonly used as our early ancestors turned to farming. Neolithic...
