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MuseumsSite Name: The Novium Alternative Name: Chichester District Museum
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 8.51 km away from the location you searched for.

County: West Sussex Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Chichester
Map Ref: SU8590604914  Landranger Map Number: 197
Latitude: 50.837390N  Longitude: 0.781383W
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The Novium submitted by dodomad : Dagger found with Racton Man The dagger handle was made of horn or bone but has now disappeared Photo credit: The Novium (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Novium Museum in Chichester, West Sussex has a collection containing stone tools from the Prehistoric Boxgrove site, (the earliest hominid ancestor found in Britain), flint tools from across the district used in the Mesolithic Period, and Neolithic finds from the Trundle and Harrow Hill. There is also a rich collection of Bronze Age hoards, and objects from Iron Age burials.

Chichester is perhaps most famous for its Roman past. Known then as the market town Noviomagvs Reginorum, Chichester was an affluent community in the Roman period and had its own amphitheatre, bathhouse and forum. Artefacts and remains from throughout the district have allowed us to better understand daily life and death in the Roman period. In addition, Saxon burial sites, such as those found at Apple Down, have also left us with an important record of this community of settlers.

Address: Tower Street, PO19 1QH
Phone: 01243 775888
Opening Hours: 10:00 - 17:00 Monday to Saturday (and Sunday 10:00 - 16:00 Apr-Oct)
Admission: Free.



Note: Racton Man exhibition runs until the 1st December 'Warrior Chief with earliest bronze weapon may have died in combat'
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The Novium submitted by dodomad : Dagger found with Racton Man The dagger is one of only seven ornate rivet-studded daggers ever discovered in the UK Photo credit: The Novium (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Racton Man exhibition running until the 1st December 2015 by Andy B on Monday, 05 October 2015
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Racton Man exhibition. Discover the secrets of this Bronze Age burial, running until the 1st December 2015

Fondly known as Racton man, this burial has been a mystery since it was excavated. The body was buried with an ornate dagger suggesting this person had a significant role during their life, but what that was remains unclear. This exhibition reveals the recent analysis of the burial and sheds some light upon its secrets.

http://www.thenovium.org/index.cfm?ArticleId=23650

http://www.thenovium.org/index.cfm?articleid=22410

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-30478544

http://www.chichester.gov.uk/article/25733/Warrior-Chief-with-earliest-bronze-weapon-may-have-died-in-combat


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    Warrior Chief with earliest bronze weapon may have died in combat by Andy B on Monday, 05 October 2015
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    A Bronze Age skeleton, found buried with one of the first bronze daggers in the UK, could have been one of our early rulers who died in combat.

    Racton Man - as he is now known, due to where he was found - has finally given up some of his secrets, thanks to scientific research carried out across the United Kingdom.

    Specialists from England, Wales and Scotland have spent months scientifically analysing his teeth, bones and dagger to start creating a picture of who this man was, how he died and where he was from, plus his age, height and details of his health.

    They believe that the Racton Man was probably a tribal leader from the very beginning of the Bronze Age. Their research makes him significant on a national scale. Scientists have determined that he was buried more than 4,000 years ago and was over 45 at the time of his death. He is now on display, along with his story, at The Novium Museum in Chichester, which is run by Chichester District Council.

    Of particular interest is the bronze dagger found in the hands of the skeleton. This is now established as one of the earliest bronze artefacts in the country and is one of only seven ornate rivet studded daggers ever discovered.

    "What makes his dagger so stunning is the rivet studded hilt," says Dr Stuart Needham, the Bronze Age specialist, who pulled together all of the research.

    "Its design is distinctively British, but of greater significance is the fact that it dates to the transition from copper to bronze metallurgy. This dagger is bronze and so this item would have been incredibly rare at the time; its colour and keen hard edge would have distinguished it from the more common copper objects in use. We don't understand the social structure of this time, but he would have been a very prominent member of society, someone of great seniority.

    "The dagger would have been made very early in the period of transition when copper tools and weapons gave way to bronze ones. This marked the start of a new technology that depended not only on the control of high temperatures, but also on the sophisticated use of raw materials to create alloys for the first time. The radiocarbon result is even earlier than I had expected for the first bronze implements here.

    "Copper metallurgy reached Ireland and Britain much later than other parts of Europe. However, as metallurgy became established, metalworkers latched onto the presence of tin in Cornwall and Devon. They were able to find enough tin to produce bronze systematically throughout Britain and Ireland. This is an important watershed and meant that the insular metalworkers were able to consolidate the practice of alloying to a degree that was not seen anywhere else in Europe. Racton Man would have been right at the cutting edge of this technological advance."

    "The results from the research are staggering," says James Kenny, the Archaeologist at Chichester District Council who originally discovered the skeleton in 1989 near Westbourne, outside Chichester.

    "We are in a really privileged position because we have all of the facts to hand - from the original excavation to the scientific analysis that has just been carried out. This is very rare for burials around this period.

    "To start with, the fact that this man had a bronze dagger would have been phenomenally rare then - let alone now. This would have been right at the start of the introduction of this type of technology and would have been one of the first bronze daggers in existence in this country.

    "There are so few burials dating back to the early Bronze Age - especially in the Chichester region. It's also rare to find such a distinctive burial that has been archaeologically excavated in recent times. For me, this is really special because I've been able to see this through from the original discovery to final analysis."

    Isotope analysis undertaken on one of the Racton Man's teeth by experts

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Bronze Age burials + settlement + Anglo-Saxon settlement at Claypit Lane Westhampnett by Andy B on Monday, 05 October 2015
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Chadwick, A.M. 2006. Bronze Age burials and settlement and an Anglo-Saxon settlement at Claypit Lane, Westhampnett, West Sussex.

Evaluation and excavation revealed slight evidence for Mesolithic activity, an Early Neolithic pit and Late Neolithic pits, one of which included the remains of apples and sloes. As well as an Early Bronze Age cremation burial, three Middle Bronze Age ring-ditches and six associated burials were found. A Middle to Late Bronze Age settlement, one of the first found on the West Sussex Coastal Plain,contained several placed deposits and an important pottery assemblage. Two Anglo-Saxon Sunken Featured Buildings also add to the growing evidence for that period on the Coastal Plain.

Evaluation and excavation at Claypit Lane,Westhampnett in advance of the gravel extraction that preceded the construction of the Rolls Royce car assembly plant was undertaken in three phases between September 2000 and September 2001. The archaeological potential of the site was clear from the outset; the West Sussex Coastal Plainhas extensive evidence for later prehistoric and Romano-British settlement exemplified by the finds from the A27 Westhampnett Bypass, only half a kilometre to the south of the site. Stane Street, the Roman road between Chichester and London, is thought to have run along the southern edge of the site

The site covered 4.3 hectares centred on SU 884066, about 2.5km to the NE of Chichester.

https://www.academia.edu/229816/Chadwick_A.M._2006._Bronze_Age_burials_and_settlement_and_an_Anglo-Saxon_settlement_at_Claypit_Lane_Westhampnett_West_Sussex
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Re: Chichester District Museum by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 15 October 2014
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Re: Chichester District Museum by Anonymous on Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Chichester District Museum (29 Little London) has now closed, been rebranded as The Novium, moved and reopened in Tower Street Chichester.
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