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<< Our Photo Pages >> Potteries Museum & Art Gallery - Museum in England in Staffordshire

Submitted by TimPrevett on Saturday, 30 November 2002  Page Views: 6942

MuseumsSite Name: Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.0 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Staffordshire Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Stoke-on-Trent
Map Ref: SJ8815147308  Landranger Map Number: 118
Latitude: 53.022932N  Longitude: 2.178098W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4 Ambience:
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery submitted by TimPrevett : The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. It does have a good section on prehistory, from the cave shelters, round barrows, Neolithic tools, Iron Age torc, and the only known cup and ring marked stone in Staffordshire. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Staffordshire

Prehistoric Collection of artefacts

Address: Bethesda St Hanley, ST1 3DW
Phone: 01782 232323
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday: 10am – 5pm; Sunday: 11am – 4pm
Admission: Free
Visit the Potteries Museum Website.

The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for The Potteries Museum And Art Gallery, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, which includes directions for finding the museum, photographs, background information and some interesting artefacts to look for, from pre-history to the Dark Ages.
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SJ8847 : Inside The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery (i) by Basher Eyre
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SJ8847 : Paintings in The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery by Oscar Taylor
by Oscar Taylor
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SJ8847 : Inside The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery (iii) by Basher Eyre
by Basher Eyre
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SJ8847 : Inside The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery (iv) by Basher Eyre
by Basher Eyre
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SJ8847 : Tiered exhibits by Oscar Taylor
by Oscar Taylor
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Target of £150k reached to buy Bronze Age treasure by Andy B on Saturday, 06 June 2026
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The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery has successfully secured the £150,000 it needs in order to keep a 3,000-year-old dress fastener. The museum acquired the solid gold object after it was discovered in 2023 in Ellastone, Staffordshire, by a metal detectorist.

It was the first object of its kind to be found in Britain in almost 30 years, and had since been declared treasure. They added only seven other pieces were recorded across England and Wales.

The money to ensure the Bronze Age piece stayed in Stoke-on-Trent was raised through a combination of public donations and grant funding.

The artefact will go on public display from spring 2027 when the museum fully reopens following a multi-million-pound transformation.

More at BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqp52eqxelo

With many thanks to Coldrum for the details.
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