Some of the earliest metal objects ever found in Britain have gone on display at Charnwood Museum.
Neolithic and Bronze Age jewellery, Roman glass, and Anglo-Saxon garnets are among the archaeological treasures on show in a makeover of the displays. The Leicestershire Museum Service’s Archaeology team have been hard at work over the Christmas holidays transforming the archaeology displays at Charnwood Museum ready for when it reopened on Saturday 5 January.
Rare jewellery, newly acquired by Leicestershire Museum Service, has been put on public display for the first time. These treasures include late Neolithic jewellery from 4,000 years ago, which are among the earliest metal objects ever found in Britain. 3,000-year-old Bronze Age bracelets and Anglo-Saxon garnet pendants dating back from 1,400 years into Shepshed’s and Sapcote’s past are also on display.
A selection of pieces from the Bronze Age prehistoric burial mounds excavated near Cossington is also featured, including an extremely rare Early Bronze Age bead necklace.
The Roman period is represented by a rare blue glass urn, an unusual iron lamp bracket and a flagon found 150 years ago in a field between Barrow-upon-Soar and Sileby during one of the earliest archaeological digs in Leicestershire.
The objects form part of the collections belonging to the Leicestershire County Council Museum Service. Some have been purchased with assistance from the Friends of Charnwood Museum, The Friends of Leicester and Leicestershire Museums, the Headley Trust and the MLA/V & A Purchase Grant Fund. They will be on display at Charnwood Museum until 28 March 2008.
Charnwood Museum is a partnership between Leicestershire County Council and Charnwood Borough Council.
Source: 24Dash
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