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MuseumsSite Name: Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Country: England County: Norfolk Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Norwich
Map Ref: TG231085
Latitude: 52.628378N  Longitude: 1.295088E
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Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
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Museum in Norfolk. Norwich Castle is home to some of the most outstanding collections of fine art, archaeology and natural history.

One of the city's most famous landmarks, Norwich Castle was built by the Normans as a Royal Palace 900 years ago.

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Mon to Fri 10am-4.30pm
Sat 10am-5pm
Sun 1pm-5pm

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Note: 3,500-year-old Rudham Dirk, a ceremonial Middle Bronze Age dagger, at Norwich Castle, see comment.
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Archaeologists hail ‘incredible’ Norfolk Bronze Age discovery by bat400 on Sunday, 15 March 2015
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The 3,500-year-old Rudham Dirk, a ceremonial Middle Bronze Age dagger, was first ploughed up near East Rudham more than a decade ago. But the landowner didn’t realise what it was and was using it to prop open his office door.

And the bronze treasure even came close to being thrown in a skip, but luckily archaeologists identified it in time.

Now the dirk has been bought for Norfolk for close to £41,000 and is now on display in Norwich Castle Museum.

Dr John Davies, Chief Curator of Norfolk Museums Service, said: “This is one of the real landmark discoveries.”

The dirk - a kind of dagger - was never meant to be used as a weapon and was deliberately bent when it was made as an offering to the gods.

Only five others like it have ever been found in Europe - including one at Oxborough in 1988, which is now in the British Museum. But thanks to a £38,970 grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, following a £2,000 donation from the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, the Bronze Age treasure will now stay in the county.

Dr Tim Pestell, who is Curator of Archaeology with the NMS, has been negotiating with the (unnamed) landowner for almost a year. He said: “As soon as my colleagues told me about it we started to plan how we could acquire it, so it could stay in Norfolk and be on display here.”

Dr Andrew Rogers, whose team first identified the dirk, said he never expected the Oxborough discovery would be repeated. “It’s absolutely incredible. Gosh - to have a find like this twice in a lifetime - this is unbelievable,” he said.

The 1.9kg (4lb) dirk is made from bronze, which is nine-tenths copper and one-tenth tin. The nearest source for the copper is Wales, while the tin may have come from Cornwall.

Straightened out, it would be 68cm long, slightly shorter than the Oxborough example. It may even have been made in the same workshop, maybe even by the same craftsperson.

Sophie Cabot, president of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, added: “We’re really excited - it would have been a great shame if we’d have lost it.”

Thanks to coldrum for the link:
http://www.nhmf.org.uk/LatestNews/Pages/RudhamDirk.aspx
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    Re: Archaeologists hail ‘incredible’ Norfolk Bronze Age discovery by Blingo_von_Trumpenstein on Monday, 16 March 2015
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    Wow - what an artefact. The patination is amazing. It is the scale that really makes it for me. 68cm in length. They are normally around 20cm so very obviously not for the same purpose as a practical dirk (stabbing). I just can't get my head round it not being sharpened. It doesn't take long to sharpen bronze and if made as an offering (almost certainly) then surely a sharp dirk is a better offering than a blunt dirk? When I think of huge neolithic Danish flint and greenstone offeraxes they are almost all polished to perfection. Great effort has gone into grinding and polishing to make a real edge. Far too large to be of any real practical tree chopping use but finished. Why then are many bronze items not finished? The thought that counts? --scratches head--
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Norwich Castle Museum Set To Aquire 'Curious' Treasure by Sunny100 on Saturday, 08 December 2012
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Click on the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-20548502
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Did Boudica live near Norwich? by coldrum on Wednesday, 25 August 2010
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Did Boudica live near Norwich?

Archaeologists are set to unearth further secrets of a Roman town on the outskirts of Norwich - and are hoping to discover evidence linking the settlemt to East Anglia's Iceni queen Boudica.

Channel 4's Time Team will be filming the excavations at Caistor St Edmund, which are the first within the Roman walls of the site for 75 years.

The Roman town of Venta Icenorum lies beneath the fields at the site but historians believe it might have been built on top of a previous Iceni settlement - perhaps even the home of the warrior queen Boudica.

Archaeologists will also be searching for clues to discover the exact date when the Roman streets were originally laid out and if the town continued to be occupied beyond the Roman period.

Parts of the site were originally excavated between 1929-1935 following the publication of dramatic aerial photographs showing the streets and public buildings.

Since then, the site was left undisturbed, until last year when Dr Will Bowden and his team began excavating the field to the south of the town.

On that occasion the remains of a 4th century Roman buried in a shallow grave was uncovered - but Dr Bowden, from the University of Nottingham, said he hoped to find evidence that a settlement was there before the Romans.

He said geophysical surveys had revealed possible prehistoric features beneath the town - and he hoped the excavation would shed new light on those.

He said: “We are reasonably confident that there was an Iron Age settlement here before the Romans and if we can find evidence of that it would go some way to being able to say something about what happened here.

“It might be that the Romans built on top of a tribal centre as a means of repressing them, or it might have been built here because one of the tribal kings was friendly with the Romans. We just don't know.

“But if it is a major Iron Age settlement then it is certain that Boudica would have been aware of it, might have visited it or might even have lived here - we have no real idea.”

Dr Bowden said it was a privilege to be able to carry out the dig at Caistor and joked: “I'd like to find a huge chariot with Boudica's name on it written just below the windscreen - that would make my career!”

The dig will start on Saturday, August 21 and continue until Saturday, September 11, with visitors welcome to visit for free to watch the archaeologists in action.

Visitors will also get the chance to see the full scale of the Roman site as the streets of the town will be painted in white on the grass, courtesy of former Norwich High School for Girls groundsman Fred Marsham.

The town is a Scheduled Ancient Monument owned by the Norfolk Archaeological Trust and managed in partnership with South Norfolk Council.

Keith Weeks, South Norfolk councillor and member of the Caistor Advisory Board said: “This is a moment of immense excitement and one we always hoped for.

“After the success of last year's excavations to the south of the site, we are now looking forward to seeing what treasures will be unearthed within the actual walls of the town.”

Funding for the new project has been raised partly through the University of Nottingham and partly through Caistor Roman Project Ltd, a charitable company set up to help the work.

The documentary being made by Tony Robinson and his Time Team crew is likely to be screened in the new year.

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Site yields up clues to the ancient past by coldrum on Sunday, 21 January 2007
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A prehistoric treasure trove spanning more than 100,000 years of Norfolk's past has been unearthed.

Travel just millimetres down through the layers of chocolate brown and olive green earth at the site outside Saham Toney, near Watton, and you are crossing millennia.

Digger driver Ralph Fickling made the first discovery last October - a leg bone the size of a small tree trunk protruding from a shelf of black gravel.

In the following months, with the help of Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service (NMAS), three mammoths' teeth and a collection of bones were uncovered at the bottom of the half-dug lake.

NMAS's curator of geology, Nigel Larkin, realised the significance of the find and gathered a collection of experts from the British Museum, Natural History Museum, Queen Mary University of London and Norwich's Castle Museum, who have spent this week delving into its muddy secrets.

The rich history spills out as Mr Larkin breaks a clod of earth from the trench to reveal earth peppered with prehistoric remnants of tiny molluscs, seeds and even beetles.

It is with these microfossils and other clues from within the sediment that experts in a range of fields will piece together a detailed picture of the shifting Norfolk landscape from 120,000 years ago to about 10,000 years ago.

During that time the UK passed through a major ice age and the landscape would have undergone dramatic changes as the climate cooled and warmed, moving through a lush environment, scrubby arctic tundra, dead ice-locked land and back to the warmer climate of today.

The remains of the three mammoths date from about 60,000 years ago, during the stone age, at a time when Neanderthal man would have roamed a sparse frozen landscape populated with animals such as woolly rhinos, spotted hyenas, reindeer and the Arctic fox.


Simon Lewis, climate expert and lecturer at Queen Mary University, said it was extraordinary to be able to map such a vast period of history using just one site.

Months of laboratory work will follow, painting a picture of the ancient climate and landscape that will inform studies of modern-day global warming and early human history in the UK.

Mr Larkin said: “We have sediments ranging from about 10,000 years ago to 120,000 years ago. Immediately I could see this site was incredibly rich in microfossils from tiny molluscs, beetles to individual blades of grass.

“These elements are vital to the understanding of the climates and landscapes of the time; for example beetles are very specific in what habitat they like, so their presence can tell us what the climate, flora and fauna was like.

“These sediments are very important, allowing us to paint a very detailed picture of the past and you can only predict future climate change by looking at trends in the past.

“Here we will be able to find out the effect of global climate change at a local level and understand how people were able to be here and why they were here.”

The heavily-grooved, block-like teeth and the collection of rib, thigh and radius bones are also unusual because they originate not only from an adult but also two young mammoths, a teenager and one about a year old.

The mammoth's teeth are made up of layers of plates to maximise cutting edges to grind down food and get the most out of a diet of nutrient-poor grass.

In 2002, just seven miles away at Lynford, a dozen woolly mammoth skeletons were found with the remains of reindeer, woolly rhino, bison and over 50 Neanderthal flint handaxes in what is the UK's richest Neanderthal site.

The dig team are all members of the Leverhulme-funded Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project and after the dig finishes today they will spend months analysing the samples and finds.

The mammoth teeth and bones may be put on display at the Castle Museu

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Prehistoric Tools on show in Norwich Castle by Andy B on Monday, 21 August 2006
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Norwich Castle is home to some very old artefacts, but few as ancient as those in its current display, lent by the British Museum in London. Made in Africa is an exhibition of the oldest man-made tools in existence, running until December 13 2006 on the Castle Keep Balcony.

The centrepieces – a chopping tool and two hand axes – were discovered in 1931 by Louis Leakey at the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. The archaeologist’s discovery was groundbreaking, contributing to the revolutionary theory that the roots of human evolution were in Africa.

More, with pictures:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh_gfx_en/ART39219.html
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