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Wiltshire Museum

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The Best Bronze Age collection in Britain featuring gold from the time of Stonehenge

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Wiltshire Museum@wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 7d ago

Management now by MoD Defence Infrastructure Organisation is exemplary. Salisbury Plain has seen little ploughing so preservation is fantastic.

Jonathan Last@johnnythin.bsky.social · 7d ago

Unfortunately "They could not schedule monuments in War Office occupation", only "ask them not to touch them." Maud emphasised that "nine-tenths of the damage was done out of pure ignorance. It was their duty to preserve the monuments for coming generations, whom they hoped would be better educated"

Jonathan Last@johnnythin.bsky.social · 7d ago

"…those monuments from being dug into or levelled or destroyed… he was sorry to say that the Army were among the worst offenders. For example, it was not so very long ago that they cut out the whole of the interior of a long barrow with the exception of one end to make a miniature rifle range."

Jonathan Last@johnnythin.bsky.social · 7d ago

The Cunningtons, Ben and Maud, were prime movers in the resolution. Capt. Ben said that "during the past 4 or 5 years Mrs Cunnington and himself had scheduled a very large number of prehistoric remains" but "their powers were simply those granted by Act of Parliament and they could not prevent…

Wiltshire Museum@wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · last wk.

William Stukeley stood on Haradon Hill (now Beacon Hill) and watched the solar eclipse of 1724. 'I stood upon this hill May 11. 1724. during the total eclipse of the sun, of which I gave an account in my Itinerarium. Here is a most noble view of the work and country about Stonehenge.'

Two men stand on top of a hill, each holding a horse. They are watching a dark cloud with streaming rays of sunlight. Etching with blue wash.
Wiltshire Museum@wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social · 2w ago

Back in July we had students come for work experience at Wiltshire Museum. We got them to pick their favourite item from the museums display, so today's Finds Friday is Esme's favourite - The Jadeite Axe. Here's why Esme liked it:

A smokey green jade colour jadiete axe head with a chipped ridge on the wider right end
The Salisbury Museum@salisburymuseum.bsky.social · 3w ago

We reckon we've got Britain's best heritage café garden view. Salisbury Cathedral framed perfectly. Peregrine falcons diving overhead. Gardens ablaze, maintained by our volunteer legends. So here's the challenge: do you know of a museum café garden view that can top this?

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Jonathan Last@johnnythin.bsky.social · 3w ago

"it was simply assumed that someone of such status must be male" - not quite, since Cunnington explicitly says "The first [skeleton] appeared, from the largeness of the bones, to have been the skeleton of a stout man"; so an assumption, yes, but based on bones not grave goods...

Rachel Pope@prehistorian.bsky.social · 3w ago

From one woman robbed in Iron Age studies (Vix, first her authority, now her gold) to another: Maud Cunnington. As Mortimer Wheeler had it, “one of the foremost archaeologists of her day” yet her articles were listed under her husband’s name in @antiquaries.bsky.social library (hopefully no more).

Dr Anke Marsh@ankemarsh.bsky.social · 4w ago

It is specifically based on the Bowl Barrow Amesbury G19A. Reference pic taken from @pottedhistory.bsky.social’s website (give them a follow/check out their website! More info on this and other grape bowls can be found on Wiltshire Museum’s site: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk?artwork=grap... 🏺

Bronze Age Grape Cup - Amesbury G19A

Handcrafted Replica Amesbury Grape Cup Details This beautifully intricate replica Grape Cup is based on an original find from a primary cremation bowl barrow in Amesbury. A vessel of great symbolic si...

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