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MuseumsSite Name: Dover Museum
Country: England County: Kent Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Dover
Map Ref: TR318413  Landranger Map Number: 179
Latitude: 51.124056N  Longitude: 1.311180E
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jeffrep visited on 29th May 2011 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Highlight of the Museum in my estimation is the Dover Boat.

Andy B visited on 2nd Mar 2011 Neil gets up close to the oldest surviving sea-going vessel in the world. Shown as part of Episode Four of BBC's History of Ancient Britain

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Dover Museum submitted by dodomad : Kent’s Bronze Age gold treasures on show in Dover Museum until December 2013. A hoard of some of the rarest prehistoric gold ornaments ever found in Britain – priceless, and insured for £1million – is now on public display for the first time in many years. Owned by the Kent Archaeological Society, the Bronze Age ‘torcs’ (bracelets and armbands), are at least 90 per cent pure gold... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Kent. Local history and archaeology, including the Dover Bronze Age Boat in its award-winning gallery.

Address: Market Square, CT16 1PB
Phone: 01304 201066
Opening Hours: Mon to Sat 10.00am - 5.30pm, open Sundays in the summer, closing at 5pm
Admission: Small charge
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Note: Kent’s Bronze Age gold treasures go on show in Dover Museum until December
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Andover Museum of the Iron Age submitted by TheCaptain : Lego model of an Iron Age hillfort in the entrance to the Andover Museum of the Iron Age. Behind is part of the Fullerton Mosaic, which was found in the main room of a Romano-British villa in the nearby village of Fullerton. The centre piece to the mosaic is the god Mars in his role as protector of agriculture. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dover Museum submitted by jeffrep : The Dover Boat, dated from the Bronze Age is approximately 3,550 years old, is located in the Dover Museum. A total of over 30 feet of the boat has been recovered. This represents at least half, but possibly as much as two-thirds of the original. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dover Museum submitted by dodomad : Some of the Bronze Age gold torcs on show in Dover Museum until December 2013. Image credit: Kent Archaeological Society (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dover Museum submitted by dodomad : One of the Bronze Age gold torc bracelets on show in Dover Museum until December 2013. Image credit: Kent Archaeological Society (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dover Museum submitted by dodomad : A hoard of some of the rarest prehistoric gold ornaments ever found in Britain – priceless, and insured for £1million – is now on public display for the first time in many years. Owned by the Kent Archaeological Society, the Bronze Age ‘torcs’ (bracelets and armbands), are at least 90 per cent pure gold (equal to 20-24 carats) Image credit: Kent Archaeological Society

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Dover Museum submitted by Andy B : The Dover Bronze Age Boat Gallery at Dover Museum. Publicity photo copyright Dover Council

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Kent’s Bronze Age gold treasures go on show in Dover Museum until December by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 October 2013
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A hoard of some of the rarest prehistoric gold ornaments ever found in Britain – priceless, and insured for £1million – is now on public display for the first time in many years.

Owned by the Kent Archaeological Society, the Bronze Age ‘torcs’ (bracelets and armbands), which are at least 90 per cent pure gold (equal to 20-24 carats), have been released for display at Dover Museum until December.

During this time two events in the town will focus on Bronze Age (2100BC-750BC) and earlier periods of history and the world-famous Dover Bronze Age Boat, unearthed during road works in 1992, will be one of the museum’s main attractions.

Mystery surrounds the torcs’ provenance. Four of them were given to the KAS by one of its members, Edward Pretty, who bought them in 1861 from an unnamed vendor and understood that they had been found in a box in the River Medway at Ferry Crossing, Aylesford.

Pretty heard that the box was subsequently thrown back into the river. ‘It is much to be lamented that a relic was lost that might in itself have been scarcely inferior to its precious contents in interest, and possibly have contributed something to their history,’ said Pretty, writing in the society’s journal Archaeologia Cantiana.

Then, in about 1869, the KAS was given seven more Bronze Age gold torcs by an unknown donor. These too were said to have been found at Aylesford and were probably bought from antique dealers. Two of the objects fit neatly together to form one ornament.

‘The torcs are up to 3,000 years old,’ said KAS Hon Curator Dr Andrew Richardson. ‘It is unlikely they were found together. Sadly their provenance is lost and even the attribution to Aylesford isn’t certain.

‘The four torcs in the 1861 acquisition probably were found together, perhaps in the river as the story says, possibly as a result of dredging, but we cannot be sure’.

Recent research has found that the 1869 acquisition is a mixture of middle- and late-Bronze Age types and therefore unlikely to have been a single hoard. They were probably acquired by dealers from various sources before being given to the KAS.

‘The torcs are important because they are among a group of rare finds of Bronze Age ornaments from southern England’, added Andrew. ‘They are further evidence that communities in Kent had access to considerable wealth and supplies of gold in this period.

‘Our hoard has rarely been displayed before, certainly not during this century. The torcs are normally kept in a secure location that I’d rather not disclose!’

Said KAS president Ian Coulson: ‘This is an appropriate time to bring our torcs to light. Normally they are kept under lock-and-key. We are displaying them to support the BOAT 1550 BC project, which is focussed around cross-Channel connections during the Bronze Age. The project relies on grants and voluntary contributions and we have donated £7,500’.

On October 18-20, Dover’s Cruise Terminal 2 will be the venue for the international ‘Yesterday Today: Bronze Age Connections in a Modern World Conference’, and Dover Museum will host a travelling exhibition ‘Beyond the Horizon: Societies of the Channel and North Sea 3,550 Years ago’.

For more details of the BOAT 1550 BC Project visit
http://www.canterburytrust.co.uk/trust-blog/boat-1550-bc-project/

For more details of the conference and exhibition visit
http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/kent-archaeology-events/yesterday-today-2013/

Source: Kent Archaeological Society
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Bronze Age boats & Kentish seaboard, talk on 19th July in Canterbury by Andy B on Saturday, 14 July 2012
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County: Kent

Thu 19 July; 19.45

A talk by Tim Allen of the University of Kent, Canterbury. £5.00 Adults, £2.50 Students (ID required)

Location: Canterbury Christchurch University, Broadstairs Campus, Northwood Road CT10 2WA.

Org: Isle of Thanet Archaeological Society
Email: mail@iotas.org.uk
Web: http://www.iotas.org.uk

Part of the Festival of British Archaeology 2012
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The Dover Bronze Age Boat Gallery at Dover Museum. by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 March 2011
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The world's oldest known seagoing boat. A major gallery at Dover Museum explores the Dover Bronze Age Boat - an internationally important archaeological discovery. After seven years of research and conservation, the Dover Boat is back in Dover and on display at Dover Museum.

The Dover Bronze Age Boat is an award-winning project. In December 2000, it was awarded the British Archaeological Awards ICI Award 2000, for its contribution to archaeological knowledge.

The Bronze Age Boat project was achieved by the Dover Bronze Age Boat Trust, a charitable organisation set up to manage the conservation and exhibition of the boat. Due to the work of this organisation, the boat is to stay in Dover and be displayed in Dover Museum.

The daily running costs of the gallery are being met by Dover District Council, which owns and operates the Museum Service. In six years (1993-1999) the Dover Bronze Age Boat Trust raised £1.6million to fund the preservation and display of the boat.

Source: http://www.dovertown.co.uk/Article.aspx?ArticleID=221
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A look at Dover museum and the famouse bronze age boat on Kent TV by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 March 2011
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