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Artefacts from the Thomas Layton Collection. Most of these are now to be found in the Museum of London collections. Engraving of a Roman cavalry parade helmet found Ribchester 1799. Neolithic (4,000 – 2,200 BC discoidal flint knife. Early Bronze Age Stone axe-hammer from Old England.
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Artefacts from the Thomas Layton Collection Most of these are now to be found in the Museum of London collections.
Engraving of a Roman cavalry parade helmet found Ribchester 1799
Iron Age Bronze Chariot fitting or ‘chariot horn cap’ from Brentford
Lower Palaeolithic (5000,000-40,000 BC) handaxe from Hanwell
Neolithic (4,000 – 2,000 BC) polished flint axe from Brentford
Ceramic model of a foot from a healing shrine in Italy 300 – 101 BC
Trefoil mouthed jug from the South Italian Greek colonies (400 – 301 BC)
Red-slipped ware jug from Roman North Africa (mid 2nd – 3rd Century AD
Stoneware “Bellarmine” jug from Germany (1601 – 1700 AD)
Dock forgery or “Shadwell Sham” medallion bearing date 1011 (late 19th century)
Cast Bronze club based on Maori patoo and bearing the crest of Joseph Banks (1772)
Maori feather box from New Zealand (unknown date, but maybe 18th-19th centuries)
Painted dancing shield from East Indonesia (18th or 19th centuries)