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MuseumsSite Name: Museum of London
Country: England County: Greater London Type: Museum
Nearest Town: London
Map Ref: TQ321815  Landranger Map Number: 176
Latitude: 51.516984N  Longitude: 0.097554W
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aolson visited on 20th Mar 2019 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5 My second favorite museum in London. I notice something new every time. This time it was the sketch for the 1814 Panorama, and a new appreciation for the Mithras sculptures.

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Museum of London submitted by Thorgrim : Entrance to the Museum of London from the high walk of London Wall near the Barbican. (Vote or comment on this photo)
CURRENTLY CLOSED FOR RENOVATION. Details of what was there follow: `London before London`, the gallery in the Museum of London that looks back over nearly half a million years of human life in the London area. This is a superb gallery in a fantastic museum that covers the whole history of London.

The prehistoric collection begins with a display of animal bones and then goes on to show the flint axes of the first people. Many human skulls are displayed including one showing numerous sword cuts and a partly healed grazing cut that removed a slice of bone. A penetrating pointed object killed the man. Many of the skulls were recovered from the Thames at Battersea along with Bronze and Iron Age swords and shields. So many skulls have been recovered with deliberately broken weapons that it suggests that the Thames at Battersea was a ritual place of sacrifice.
Unfortunately, the London Museum does not permit photography.
Address: London Wall, EC2Y 5HN
Phone: 020 7600 3699
Opening Hours: Mon to Sat 10.00am to 5.50pm, Sun 12.00 noon to 5.50pm
Admission: Free
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Museum of London submitted by Sunny100 : A viking tombstone dating from 1000 CE on display in the Museum of London. It was found in 1852 in the old St Paul's churchyard, London. The carvings on the stone are a lion and a snake entwined while fighting each other. On the edges two rows of runes recalling Ginna and Toski 'who had this stone set-up'. They were probably followers of King Canute. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Weapons from Havering Hoard to go on Display in New Exhibition by bat400 on Monday, 07 February 2022
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Coldrum sends:

Harry Platts’s discovery of a 3,000-year-old axe in summer 2018 was the first of 453 artefacts found on a site on the northern edge of the Thames in Rainham.

The haul, dating between 800 and 900 BC, became known as the “Havering Hoard” — the third largest of its kind ever unearthed in the UK.

That the “once in a lifetime” find was unearthed by a relative rookie was revealed today as the Museum of London announced the collection is to go on display next month. Mr Platts, 23, a former archaeology student at University College London, was on a six-week temporary contract for Archaeological Solutions when he struck gold.

The site, overseen by Historic England, had been identified as an area of interest since the Sixties through aerial photographs.

Four weeks into the job, at about 2.30pm on a Friday, Mr Platts, who is from Dover, Kent, spotted a patch of green in his area.

He told the Evening Standard: “I was wrapping up for the weekend and I saw this patch of green on the edge of my section. I thought it might be a stone or something but then it started to look very much like an axe. I literally called everyone over and we all stared at it. And then more patches of green began to emerge around it. It was mad.”

Mr Platts, who is now studying for a masters in medieval archaeology at York University, added: “I did about five hours of overtime that night. I had everything in to make myself a roast dinner when I got home from work. I still made it at 10pm when I got home and had a few beers to celebrate. Some archaeologists don’t have a discovery like that throughout their career. So it was career defining. It may never happen again. So yes, I celebrated.”
Mr Platts’s axe and the 452 other objects will be displayed in Havering Hoard: A Bronze Age Mystery, a free exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, from September 11.
The collection, which includes swords, spearheads, bracelets and terret rings, used to stop reins tangling on carts, was supposed to have gone on display in April but the museum was shut due to lockdown.

Experts believe the rare collection might suggest a specialist metal worker operated in the area.

Kate Sumnall, curator of archaeology at the museum, said: “The Havering site is particularly important due to its proximity to the marshes and the Thames, allowing people to travel widely on boats to exchange materials and goods.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/havering-hoard-harry-platts-museum-of-london-a4528331.html%3famp
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The reconstructed head of a Neolithic woman at the Museum of London by davidmorgan on Monday, 05 March 2012
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Curator’s Choice: In his own Words… Jon Cotton, Senior Curator (Prehistory) in the Early London History and Collections department of the Museum of London, chooses the reconstructed head of a prehistoric alien…

"She was found in Shepperton, on the Western fringes of London, dug into the gravel in the remains of an ancient sacred site. Give or take, she’s around 5,500-years-old – Neolithic. We’ve got earlier bodies and human remains, but nothing quite as complete.

That’s down to sheer dumb luck, I think. The soil preservation was good enough for the bones to survive, which was a huge factor in the way we’ve chosen to display her.

It was only when the pathology came in that we saw exactly how we were going to do it - it was an absolute no-brainer. ‘Shepperton Woman’ is the oldest Londoner whose face we could realistically reconstruct.

Caroline Wilkinson - the dental pathologist we got in - does a lot of work for the police on murder and burns victims. Seven or eight out of 10 people recognise their relatives from her reconstructions, so it’s theoretically quite possible that someone who knew this woman would recognise her from the model.

There are certain caveats, of course. We’ve no idea of the colour of her hair or eyes, or the nature of her skin pigmentation. But the architecture of the face – the cheekbones, chin, even the earlobes - could be reconstructed with reasonable accuracy. We used a bit of artistic license on the hairstyle, of course.

It’s an interesting face – she has been described as 'masculine', and Caroline did come back to us several times while she was performing the reconstruction to ask if we were absolutely sure the body was a woman’s. I told her I only had what the bone specialists told us to go on, and that they were fairly confident.

Shepperton Woman would have been between 30 and 40 years old when she died – not a bad age in stone-age society. We do get older people, but about four or five out of every 10 people in those days didn’t survive beyond a year.

She was one of the lucky ones, and the fact she lived as long as she did is a testament to her lifestyle.

Her teeth are worn flat – she’d obviously eaten a lot of gritty, stone-ground bread. All the same, they’re probably in better nick than those of most people today.

She’d have had no processed sugar in her diet, and plenty of whole grains and roughage. She lost one or two teeth, but there’s no evidence of any dental decay.

What’s more, the amount of lead in her teeth tells us she couldn’t have been drinking local groundwater when she was a child because there isn’t lead-rich groundwater in the London area.

She must have come from a chalkier, more calcareous area, somewhere like the Pennines, the Mendips or the Derbyshire Peaks – a long way to the north, in other words.

We don’t know why she ended up where she did – whether she came down of her own accord or was brought down as a bride of even a slave we have no idea.

It may be that because she was an incomer, an outsider to the local community, she was given special dispensation at death to be buried in this sacred place in the landscape.

She was certainly buried in a very deliberate way in the ditch bottom. There was another burial a few metres away from her, probably a male, but he wasn’t nearly as complete. A lot of the locals, I suspect, probably went into the Thames, but she was for some reason regarded as special.

We may never know why, but these little mysteries are all part of the beauty of archaeology – it’s fascinating to piece together what we can from the clues we have."

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/archaeology/art360727

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Re: Museum of London senior curator of Prehistory to be lost and three jobs merged by Quesadillas on Friday, 18 March 2011
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Tragic news if this goes ahead and a tragic loss if Jon Cotton should go. He would be a heck of a loss to London Archaeology. He has been leading the way and getting prehistoric stuff done that otherwise wouldn't have for it must be atleast 25 years now.
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Museum of London senior curator of Prehistory to be lost and three jobs merged by Andy B on Saturday, 12 March 2011
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John Shepherd writes:
The posts of senior curator of Prehistory and senior curator of Roman London are to be made redundant with the post of Senior Medieval Curator (frozen since John Clark's retirement) lost too.

The rationale? Not sure I know or understand, sorry. In their place is to be a single curator to cover the Prehistoric, Roman and Medieval periods. Where once were three period curators successfully advocating their collections and subjects, now there will be one to deal with the whole lot.

Of course, curators around the country have to manage multi-period collections - but this is the Museum of London. The narrative, its collection, the potentials are enormous. This reduction will make the sole surviving curator's post not fit for purpose - and heaven forbid what the next step will be.

This is part of total job losses of 15 posts. However the Directorate and senior staff (increased salaries of 60-90k) have increased from 6 to 10 in 2010

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1102&L=BRITARCH&O=D&P=106319

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2011/02/slash-and-burn-at-the-museum-of-london.html

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/AboutUs/ReportsPolicies/Accounts.htm
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    The Museum of London has confirmed that it has made 11 voluntary redundancies by Andy B on Thursday, 21 April 2011
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    The Museum of London (MoL) has confirmed that it has made 11 voluntary redundancies and is looking to set up Museum of London Archaeology (MoLA) as a stand-alone charity.

    A spokesman said MoLA would eventually be set up as independent charity, a move that would give it “greater commercial potential”. Meanwhile, the museum is also reviewing the London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre (LAARC), which is a free-of-charge repository for archaeological finds from the Greater London area.

    The museum is currently redeveloping its Roman gallery, and a new senior curator post has been created to cover pre-history and Roman history. The spokesman said outgoing staff were given the opportunity to apply for this role, but it will now be advertised externally.

    The museum has not had just one curator look after these two fields of history for more than 20 years, but the spokesman said this “was not a return to the 1980s”.
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    Merger of Roman and Prehistory curator 'takes MoL back to the 1940s' by Andy B on Thursday, 21 April 2011
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    John Clark writes: Now the Museum has confirmed the full details (including the LAARC review and the proposed privatisation of MOLA) I no longer have to feel as if I’m breaking MoL confidence by putting info on Britarch and talking to journalists!

    Interesting quote from the MoL spokesman:

    >a new senior curator post has been created to cover pre-history and Roman history... >The museum has not had just one curator look after these two fields of history for >more than 20 years, but the spokesman said this “was not a return to the 1980s”.

    Well, actually it’s a return to the 1940s. The post-War London Museum did indeed have one curator (Jean Macdonald, a prehistorian) looking after both prehistoric and Roman (and indeed Anglo-Saxon) collections – on the other hand its Director W F Grimes was the excavator of the Temple of Mithras, and its later partner the Guildhall Museum had an eminent Romanist, Ralph Merrifield, on its staff!

    And when the Museum of London came into being in 1976 it had FOUR curators to care for the prehistoric and Roman collections: a Keeper, two Senior Assistant Keepers (one for prehistory, one for Roman) and a junior curator whose official title I’ve forgotten for the moment. Clearly the official spokesman doesn’t know much about MoL’s history. Perhaps that's a part of the problem

    John Clark
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London before London now online by Anonymous on Tuesday, 15 June 2010
London before London

London 450,000BC to AD50

Our London Before London exhibition explores the story of the Thames Valley and the people who lived here from 450,000BC to the founding of Londinium in AD50.

Beginning with a time when London was nothing but tundra, and the local population would fit on a double decker bus, London before London explores the relationship between human communities and their surroundings.

The river Thames is central to this story, and to the lives of the people who lived along its banks. In the centre of the gallery, a spectacular ‘River Wall’ features over 300 objects dredged from its depths – many of them bronze and iron swords laid there to please the gods of the water.

The gallery also contains the remains of one of the oldest people to have been found in the London region. The skeleton is between 5640 and 5100 years old and is displayed alongside a facial reconstruction.

The entire exhibited collection is online for you to browse, search and do tours through, and you can also play games, see the layout of the gallery and more on the extensive London Before London exhibition website.
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http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Permanent/LondonBeforeLondon.htm
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