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'Items that are likely to date to the Late Iron Age/Romano-British period' In: Boughey, Keith, A Tale of Two Collectors: The Lithic Collections of Geoffrey Taylor and David Heys (with particular reference to the county of Yorkshire)
The book begins with brief biographies of the two collectors and outlines the areas in which they collected, principally the North York Moors, and their method of working, before attempting to set their work into its wider prehistoric context. It then explains how the over 18,000 worked pieces in the...Hunter, Fraser ; Sheridan, J A
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'The zoomorphic ring-headed pin' In: Strachan, David, Cook, Martin and McLaren, Dawn 'Three Forts on the Tay: Excavations at Moncreiffe, Moredun and Abernethy, Perth and Kinross 2014–17'
The most remarkable find from the Moredun excavations was a copper-alloy bird-headed pin (Figures 4.7, 4.8 and 4.9), unique and yet readily placed into a wider context. It is a miniature masterpiece of early Celtic art dating to the 3rd century BC. A summary of the find and its wider...Hunter, Fraser
copper-alloy bird-headed pin, chamfrain, archaeological excavations, Bronze mask , and Moredun excavations
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Collecting an exhibiting Marian objects in nineteenth-century Britain
Marian objects were collected, exhibited and written about throughout the nineteenth century and held a fascination for scholars and the public alike. Yet due to their status as highly prized collectibles, very few of these Marian 'relics' were acquired for Scotland's national museum in Edinburgh.1 So who was collecting Mary...Holder, Julie
Scottish History, community memory , Mary Queen of Scots, history of objects and material culture, media and heritage studies, and gender history
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Materialising Mary in a museum: Marian objects and authenticity
There are few verified bodily relics pertaining to Mary, and certainly not any resulting from her execution. A fire was burning at the behest of the Elizabethan government even before her head left her body, and her blood-stained clothing was consigned immediately to it. However, over the longer term these...Groundwater, Anna
Scottish History, gender history , Mary Queen of Scots , history of objects and material culture, media and heritage studies , and community memory
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