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MuseumsSite Name: Torquay Museum
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.177 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Devon Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Torquay
Map Ref: SX9232863616  Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.462459N  Longitude: 3.518338W
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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : Torquay Museum in Babbacombe Road. Not too far up hill from the harbour, but there is a bus stop outside. Admission fees apply, see: http://www.torquaymuseum.org/default.asp?categoryID=33 Interesting displays. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Devon. Their archaeology gallery covers the prehistory of the local area including Kents Cavern

Address: 529 Babbacombe Road, TQ1 1HG
Phone: 01803 293975
Opening Hours: Monday – Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm (last entry at 4.00pm); Sundays from 1st July to mid-September 11.00am – 5.00pm (last entry at 4.00pm)
Admission: On their website
Website: Torquay Museum

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : Bifacial tools and knapping flake found at Kents Cavern by William Pengelly in the 19th century. These were probably used for butchering animals. Flint pebbles were not the best material, as they are hard to work but probably the nearest source. These were made near the cave. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : Flint arrowheads from a site at Hazard Hill, nr. Totnes, collected in 1950. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : One flint [L] and two stone axes - part of the display here. The two on the left are from Torquay and the one on the right from Bishopsteignton (between Newton Abbot and Teignmouth). The two polished stone axes are of Cornish Greenstone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : A leg bone from a Hippopotamus. Joint Mitnor Cave, Buckfastleigh. 125,000 years old. Excavated by Torquay Natural History Soc between 1939-41. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : A Hippo tusk (ivory). Hippos use these huge canines for fighting and could bisect a human in a single bite! (Ouch!) Joint Mitnor Cave, Buckfastleigh, 125,000 years old, excavated between 1939-41 by Torquay Natural History Soc. (9 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : This jadeite chisel was lovely. It was found at Brownstone Barrow, Brownstone Farm, Kingswear. Probably a ritual offering, the raw material was probably from Alpine Europe.

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : A tiny, delicate, bone needle - possibly bird bone - found by William Pengelly in 1866 in the vestibule at Kents Cavern. [About 1" long]

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : Fragments of lower bear jaw found at Kents Cavern, Matthew's Passage, by William Pengelly in 1876.

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : Spotted Hyena skull from Kents Cavern.

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : Skull of a woman of around 25 years of age found at Kents Cavern. Thought to be about 5,000 years old. (1 comment)

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : More on KC4, the very early jawbone found in Kent's Cavern.

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : Kents Cavern 'KC4' piece of very early human jawbone, may be 31,000 or 36,000 years old.

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : KC4 Britain's First Modern Human? The tiny piece of early jawbone thought to be 31,000 or 36,000 years old. Kent's Cavern 1927 excavation.

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : An Aurochs' skull found in a peat bed at the Recreation Grounds, Kings Gardens, Torquay in 1883. Injuries to the front of the skull are consistent with those inflicted by hunters finishing off a kill. Aurochs were enormous ancestors of domestic cattle and brought to Britain 6000 years ago.

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : A plan of some of the more important sites in S.Devon. I see Churston is marked on this one, so assume it's the one Mike Parker Pearson studied, which I've just added as a comment regarding 'near neighbours' to the Broadsands Chambered Tomb site page. (You can see how close they are here.)

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Torquay Museum submitted by AngieLake : Three Bronze animal figurines from Milber. c.100 BC - c.50 AD. From the collections of Torquay Museum. (Photo by David Garner from the booklet 'Treasures of Ancient Devon', Devon Books, 1996 edition.) (1 comment)

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 1.3km ENE 62° Kent's Cavern* Cave or Rock Shelter (SX93456418)
 2.4km N 358° Stonehenge at Babbacombe Model Village* Modern Stone Circle etc (SX923660)
 6.3km NW 324° Doda Well* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SX887688)
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 8.1km NW 305° Ladywell (Abbotskerswell)* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SX858684)
 9.3km WNW 298° Dornafield Tumulus* Round Barrow(s) (SX842682)
 9.5km NW 322° Newton Abbot Museum* Museum (SX866712)
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 11.3km N 354° Whitewell Woods Well* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SX913749)
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 11.8km WNW 293° Denbury* Hillfort (SX816685)
 12.4km WSW 254° The Brutus Stone* Marker Stone (SX8035760411)
 12.4km WSW 254° Totnes Museum* Museum (SX8030060419)
 12.5km N 359° Lidwell* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SX924761)
 12.8km WSW 254° Leech Wells* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SX799603)
 13.4km N 358° Castle Dyke (Devon)* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX92147700)
 15.8km NNW 341° Castle Dyke (Chudleigh)* Hillfort (SX875787)
 16.1km NNW 338° Pixie's Hole Cave or Rock Shelter (SX86547865)
 16.1km NNW 338° Cow Cave Cave or Rock Shelter (SX86477866)
 17.4km SW 232° Halwell Camp North East* Hillfort (SX784532)
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Re: Ipplepen Dig to feature in 2019 exhibition at Torquay Museum by AngieLake on Sunday, 30 December 2018
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Announcement in Ipplepen village magazine for January 2019:

"The Ipplepen Dig.

"Torquay Museum will be hosting a new exhibition in 2019 entitled IPPLEPEN - New Discoveries on the Edge of the Roman Empire - and they want to include local people's views on the research and excavations that have taken place since 2011. Please send any comments to : clare.howe@torquaymuseum.org "

Check out the Megalithic Portal site page here:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=34750
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Re: Rare Ancient Egyptian Coffin at Torquay Museum by AngieLake on Friday, 07 October 2011
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More on this story from the Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2046440/Sarcophagus-lay-years-seaside-museum-owners-realised-3-500-years-old.html
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Re: Rare Ancient Egyptian Coffin at Torquay Museum by AngieLake on Wednesday, 05 October 2011
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Read the intriguing story of the young boy mummy, and his much older coffin:
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/Coffin-reveals-secret-past-mummified-royal-boy/story-13481724-detail/story.html

"Coffin reveals secret past of mummified 'royal boy'"

"A 2,500-year-old mummified boy, who is a star draw at Devon's oldest museum, has unexpectedly been put in the shade – by the very coffin in which he lies.

Ever since he went on show as part of a major revamp at Torquay Museum in 2007, Psamtek – the only human mummy on public display in the county – has captured the imagination of thousands of curious visitors.

The boy mummy Psamtek may have been a member of Egyptian royalty. Hospital X-ray and CT scans revealed he probably perished from disease, aged about four. [Xray pic shown here.]

But now his own mummy-shaped coffin has stolen the limelight, after museum officials were told the ornate near-4ft-long object (1.2m) is nearly 1,000 years older than the body it contains.

Further investigation reveals the coffin may have been made for a junior member of royalty more than a century before the time of the famous boy king Tutankhamun.

Museum curator Barry Chandler said: "It's an extraordinary discovery and means that the coffin is now the most spectacular exhibit in our entire collection.

"It's extremely rare – even the British Museum doesn't have one quite like it."

[More of the story via the link above]
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Re: Meet the Ancestors asTV Presenter Returns Jawbone 26 April 09 by AngieLake on Monday, 25 May 2009
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Don't miss this if you're interested in seeing Torquay Museum's new Ancestors Exhibition.

In the local paper today on this link:
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Meet-Ancestors-TV-presenter-returns-jawbone/article-1018984-detail/article.html
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Torquay Museum: The Prehistoric Bronze Animal Figurines from Milber by AngieLake on Thursday, 04 September 2008
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Three Prehistoric Bronze Animal Figurines from Milber. c. 100 BC - c. 50 AD. From the collections of Torquay Museum.

"These three small figurines of bronze were found during excavations carried out at Milber Down hillfort near Newton Abbot by the Devon Archaeological Society in 1938. The hillfort has three concentric and widely-spaced ramparts; the bronzes were found in the upper ditch fill of the middle rampart.

The figures, which are about 6cm long and up to 3.5cm high, are a bird, a stag and a duck. The bird has a long tail and detached wings; the stag is prostrate, with a raised band extending across its body; the duck is swimming, with a little cake in its mouth. In the published report of the excavation, Sir Cyril Fox, then the doyen of Celtic art studies, wrote as follows:

‘The stag and the bird shew just clever naturalistic modelling – nothing Celtic about them, whereas the duck is essential duckery expressed in the simplest terms, and is of the same order as the Hounslow boars, the Harpenden ram or the Felmersham fish head. It represents a specific British-Celtic contribution to art and is timeless and unique. But this exquisite creature is more than a duck; it is a duck swimming. The double lines are slightly broader in front and behind; the duck’s movement – I have watched it so often in St James’ Park – creates a double bar of light and shade along its side, stronger in front and lapping up when the tail is lowered. I expect that there were ducks kept on the sacred pools of the Celts such as that in which the Aurum Tolosanum was hidden, and fed by the priests; and watched lovingly by craftsmen and others, as we sit and watch the ducks in our parks.’

These are most unusual objects, and it has been suggested that they served some religious or ritual function. They might for example have been mounted on a ceremonial staff, vessel or casket.”

Taken from ‘Treasures of Ancient Devon’, Devon Books, 1996 edition. (Booklet accompanying a short-term exhibition of ancient artefacts in Devon.)
Photo by David Garner.
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Made in Africa, Torquay Museum, 26th July to 6th October by coldrum on Thursday, 02 August 2007
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Made in Africa, Torquay Museum, 26th July to 6th October

"Made in Africa"
26th July to 6th October
On loan from the British Museum, these stone tools from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, date back nearly two million years. They are among the oldest known artefacts in the world and are masterpieces of the toolmaker's art. They remind us that human life, technology and art began in Africa. Visitors will have the chance to handle tools and see early man-made artefacts from the museum's collection.
http://www.devonmuseums.net/component/option,com_mumancontent/task,view/sectionid,34/catid,368/

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