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MuseumsSite Name: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery Alternative Name: The Royal Pavilion
Country: England County: West Sussex Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Brighton
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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : Overview of the displays including this rather nice campfire / timber henge. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Brighton Museum houses one of the most important and eclectic collections outside national institutions. Its recent £10million redevelopment has created dynamic and innovative new galleries that encourage you to get involved as you wander round the transformed museum.

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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : Roman gaming / gambling board and pieces. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : Weaving display from the Iron Age section. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : Part of the Bronze Age display (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : Neolithic flint mining tools from a site near Worthing (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : More James Dilley in the Palaeolithic section…

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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : It was something of a shock to walk in to find wall to wall James Dilley from Ancient Craft in the videos (see also the far tree chopping one) Really fantastic displays though.

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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : The most well known mummy cases in the Egyptology gallery.

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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : Animal mummies display in the Egyptology gallery.

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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : Some of the displays in the Egyptology gallery.

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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : White Hawk Hill film installation, Brighton & Hove Museum 8th March - 10th April 2016 Brighton Museum & Art Gallery are exhibiting a site-specific film all about Brighton’s Whitehawk Hill, one of the UK’s oldest Neolithic sites. WHITE HAWK HILL is a new work by environmental artists Red Earth (Catlin Easterby and Simon Pascoe) and filmmaker Anna Lucas. Created as a three-screen install...

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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : A Sussex Loop is a finely crafted bracelet or armlet made about 3,500 years ago from a thick bronze rod which was bent double, forming a loop at one end, and then bent round into an ‘O’ form with the ends of the rod fitting back into the loop. Image credit: Brighton Museums. Text by Andy Maxted, one of the Brighton Museum curators. More at the Brighton Museum blog

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Re: Fantastic Reconstructions of Ancient Faces at Brighton Museum by AngieLake on Tuesday, 13 August 2019
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See article and pictures here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7348295/How-Swedish-sculptor-brings-life-faces-people-died-thousands-years-ago.html
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New Brighton Museum Archaeology Gallery opens to the public on Saturday, January 25th by Andy B on Wednesday, 19 December 2018
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This is what our Sussex ancestors looked like – according to new archeology exhibition

Pic: Neolithic woman, remains found on Whitehawk Enclosure

The new archaeology gallery opens at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in the new year. At the heart of the exhibition will be seven forensically-accurate 3D facial reconstructions revealing the faces of people, some of whose remains were found in and around Brighton and Hove from the Ice Age to the Saxon era.

Using modern scientific technology, research into the lives of these people has discovered a wealth of mystery, drama and tragedy through childbirth, malnutrition, toothache and possibly murder, the museum said.

The exhibition will show what they looked like and reveal their stories.

Named after its major benefactor, The Elaine Evans Archaeology Gallery opens to the public on Saturday, January 25.

https://www.brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk/news/this-is-what-our-sussex-ancestors-looked-like-according-to-new-archeology-exhibition-1-8724668

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White Hawk Hill film installation, Brighton & Hove Museum 8th March - 10th April 2016 by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 March 2016
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From next week Brighton Museum & Art Gallery are exhibiting a site-specific film all about Brighton’s Whitehawk Hill, one of the UK’s oldest Neolithic sites.

WHITE HAWK HILL is a new work by environmental artists Red Earth (Catlin Easterby and Simon Pascoe) and filmmaker Anna Lucas. Created as a three-screen installation and filmed over twelve months, it evokes this forgotten hinterland and the people who experience it, both today and in the prehistoric past.

The film was made in partnership with local archaeologist Matt Pope, who grew up exploring Whitehawk Hill and abandofbrothers, who are a 'rites of passage' mentoring charity for young men (founded in Whitehawk)

“On the hill lie traces of an ancient ritual monument known as Whitehawk Camp.” explained Red Earth’s Simon Pascoe, “Older than Stonehenge but now dominated by a mobile phone mast and cut by road and racecourse, 5,500 years ago this Neolithic enclosure was a communal focus for gatherings, feasting and burial”.

“Imagine four huge white chalk walls encircling the summit of the hill. In low light some of these earthworks are still clearly visible.” said Red Earth’s Caitlin Easterby, describing the Neolithic site. “Excavations in the early 20th century revealed pottery, flint tools, animal bones and carved chalk. But it’s the human burials that bring our ancestors closest to us: a 40 year old man, a young boy, and two young women in their twenties. One of the women was buried with her unborn baby, a carved chalk pendant and fossilized sea urchins laid by her side. These are poignant personal details echoing across five thousand years to touch our imagination.”

Simon continued “For one year we recorded the hill through the changing seasons, running events with the band of brothers community, exploring the hill’s neolithic past as a place for gatherings, rituals and feasting.”

“Working with abandofbrothers was central to the film’s concept. Life for a twenty-year-old in Neolithic times would have been very different to young people’s experience today. Average life expectancy was around thirty. The young men and women who gathered here would have been skilled and respected members of their community.

In contrast, a twenty-year-old in today’s society can feel alienated and marginalised, excluded rather than included. With abandofbrothers we wanted to explore this contrast and give young people the chance to make a personal connection with the past.”

Caitlin sums up the project “WHITE HAWK HILL pays homage to thousands of years of uninterrupted human interaction with this extraordinary place, connecting archaeology, myth and contemporary life to reveal a landscape shared by two communities over 5000 years apart”.

WHITE HAWK HILL was made in association with CAA/UCL’s Dig Whitehawk programme, and Red Earth received support from local archaeologists based at Archeology South East, with help from Paul Gorringe from Brighton and Hove Ranger Services, Donna Close, ex-Brighton and Hove arts officer, and the Brighton Archaeology Group.

Funded by Arts Council England, One Planet Living, and the Centre for Applied Archaeology (UCL) through the Heritage Lottery Fund, with support from Brighton & Hove City Council, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, and De Montfort University.

Whitehawk Camp is situated on Whitehawk Hill, a portion of chalk downland on the east of Brighton overlooking the coastal plain, and rising above the Whitehawk Estate. It is a world-class heritage site, a rare type of ritual monument and of considerable national importance.

Whitehawk Camp is the second largest Neolithic causewayed enclosure in Britain and, at 5,500 year-old (predating Stonehenge by around 500 years), one of the oldest Neolithic sites in the country - and yet it is only just beginning to gain rec

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A pair of flint axeheads in Brighton Museum and more featured artefacts by Andy B on Monday, 13 May 2013
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This pair of flint axeheads were found together at Clappers Platts near Fulking in 1905 and were later purchased by Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. They date from the Neolithic Period, around 5,000 years ago.

http://rpmcollections.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/two-of-a-kind/

Rapier Blade and Handle from the Bronze Age Black Rock Hoard. Part of a Bronze Age hoard discovered a short distance inland from Black Rock, East Brighton, in late 1913 or early 1914. The hoard was found in chalk rubble, probably during the excavation of building foundations. Much of the hoard dates to the Middle Bronze Age, around 3,500 years ago.

The hoard also contained:-
Eight bronze palstave axe heads
Three bronze ‘Sussex’ loops
Two bronze armlets
One bronze coiled finger ring

http://rpmcollections.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/object-of-the-month-rapier-blade-and-handle-from-the-bronze-age-black-rock-hoard/

Bronze Age beaker and barbed flint arrowhead, found with a crouched skeleton in June 1921, during widening works to Ditchling Road, Brighton.

http://rpmcollections.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/archaeology-review-a-volunteers-perspective/

Prehistoric tools from Denmark which have been in the collection for over 90 years. In total there are six boxes of stone and flint tools from Denmark in the archaeology collection.

http://rpmcollections.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/archaeology-review-what-would-you-do/
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    Re: A pair of flint axeheads in Brighton Museum and more featured artefacts by Blingo_von_Trumpenstein on Tuesday, 14 May 2013
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    Axes - lovely axes. I would suggest they are 2 sided point butted axes dating from nearer to 4000BC...
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The Brighton Morris Men visit the Bronze Age Sussex Loops by Andy B on Monday, 13 May 2013
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Andy Maxted, one of the Brighton Museum curators writes: On 1st May this year, the Brighton Morris Men interrupted their May Day celebrations to come to Brighton Museum & Art Gallery and view one of our ‘Sussex Loops’.

A Sussex Loop is a finely crafted bracelet or armlet made about 3,500 years ago from a thick bronze rod which was bent double, forming a loop at one end, and then bent round into an ‘O’ form with the ends of the rod fitting back into the loop.

So far 32 Loops have been found, all within the South Downs/Weald area and all but two within 16 miles of Brighton. As none have been discovered outside this area, they would appear to be the work of a nearby craftsman or workshop and must have had some sort of local significance, perhaps a badge of honour for a Bronze Age tribe living in or around Brighton.

What seems strange is that they are generally found buried in pairs or threes (although five were uncovered recently as part of the Near Lewes Hoard) and, in a number of cases, they form part of a larger Bronze Age Hoard – buried with other items of Bronze Age jewellery and weaponry, some of which appear to have been made on the Continent.

More at the Brighton Museum blog
http://rpmcollections.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/may-day-in-brighton-brighton-morris-men-sussex-loops/
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The Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton by Andy B on Monday, 13 May 2013
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Worth a visit as well is The Booth Museum of Natural History, which is a little bit away from the centre of Brighton. It's mainly stuffed birds and animal bones in a 'vintage' setting. It doesn't have much of a prehistory collection but what there is is fascinating.

http://www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk/Museums/boothmuseum/Pages/home.aspx

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2542504

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Chilled to the Bone: Ice Age Sussex, running until January 2014 by Andy B on Monday, 13 May 2013
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16 March 2013 to 18 January 2014, Brighton Museum, Spotlight Gallery, Free admission

Using the Royal Pavilion & Museums natural history and archaeology collections this new display explores the ice age. More relevant than ever today, the ice ages throughout Earth’s history can help to indicate what effect climate change could have on our modern world, and how those changes could impact on our future.

Ice ages are also intrinsically linked to the story of man, as we have only existed while ice has been present at the poles. The display looks at how ice has driven our evolution, why we have survived whilst the Neanderthals perished, and what the disappearance of ice from the poles could mean for our survival.

The display also tells the fascinating story of the Victorian 'great bone rush', an intensive search by scientists and gentleman collectors across Europe, looking for the origins of modern humans. Sussex was often at the centre of this search, from early archaeological discoveries of tools, to the controversy of the Piltdown forgery, and finally the discovery of Boxgrove Man, the oldest known human ancestors in Britain.

http://www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk/WhatsOn/Pages/ChilledtotheBoneIceAgeSussex16mar13to18jan14.aspx

see also a blog post by the curator
http://rpmcollections.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/chilled-to-the-bone/
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