Exploring Stone Age hammers – would you want to use one today?

Exploring Stone Age hammers – would you want to use one today?

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...
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...
A Bronze Age gold bracelet worn for 21st century ceremonies

A Bronze Age gold bracelet worn for 21st century ceremonies

Bronze Age Bracelet Kiplin Hall and Gardens This gold torque bracelet was discovered on the old estate of what is now Kiplin Hall and Gardens near Richmond in North Yorkshire. It was discovered along with two others in the 19th century and likely dates from the bronze...
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