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Submitted by vicky on Friday, 07 June 2002 Page Views: 703
External Links: The latest addition to the British Museum is a new gallery dedicated entirely to prehistory, exploring 2 million years of human development. Entitled ‘Objects of Power’, the exhibition illustrates how prehistoric objects could be involved in the exercise of power and control from the earliest times up until the end of the European Bronze Age (800 BC).
The centrepiece of the gallery is the magnificent Bronze Age ceremonial gold cape from Mold, north-east Wales, brilliantly restored by the museum’s conservator.
Re: British Museum opens new Prehistory Gallery (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Sunday, 16 June 2002
I've visited the exhibition "Prehistory, Objects of Power". It's in
Rooms 36-37 at the top of the stairs near the south entrance.
Many of the objects have been relocated from elsewhere in the BM.
Together they constitute an utterly wonderful collection of artefacts
from all over Europe, from handaxes of 400,000 years ago, carved and
engraved bones, gold lunulae from Ireland, pottery/ceramics, the gold
cape from Mold, the Folkton Drums, the Rillaton cup, carved stone balls
from Scotland, objects made from amber, stone/flint, jet, jade, bronze
hoards, and the huge bronze dagger from Oxborough (a photograph of the
latter is available as a postcard from the museum shop).
My favourite is the carved boulder from the barrow at Badbury,
covered in images of axes and daggers.
The objects are displayed in about a dozen four-sided glass cabinets -
so you can see the objects from a wide perspective, and they are
brightly-lit, so it's possible to take sharply-focussed photographs
without using flash (I used ISO 200 colour print film). No tripods or
monopods are allowed.
Pictures of several of the objects are in many books, including
"Symbols of Power at the time of Stonehenge" (1985) by Clarke, Cowie and
Foxon, Nat. Mus. Antiquities of Scotland.
While you are at the BM, visit the Great Court (vast rectangular open
space) containing an Ogham stone and a statue from Easter Island.
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