Artefact Collection (page 3)

View of Middle Pleistocene site of Bilzingsleben, Germany
Showing the accumulation of mammal bones and artifacts. Lower Palaeolithic, 400, 000 years old. Photo by Chris Stringer

Flint hand axe (label)
Photograph of a human-made hand axe, which was discovered in 1859, and is thought to be about 400, 000 years old. This close-up of the label shows the date and initials J.P, for John Prestwich

Nautilus sp. nautilus shell
A carved nautilus shell, c. 1600 from the Sir Hans Sloane collection

Upper Palaeolithic carvings 11 - 18, 000 years old
Top: Reindeer carved from the tip of a mammoth tusk from Montastruc, France. Bottom: Bone spear-thrower with reindeer carving from Laugerie Basse, France

Neanderthal artifacts
Stone tools believed to once have belonged to Neanderthal Man (Homo neanderthalensis) who lived in Gorhams Cave, Gibraltar

Gorhams Cave, Gibraltar
A view of Gorhams Cave from the sea. Neanderthal artifacts have been found, dating from the Middle Palaeolithic inside this cave system

Amber cigarette holder
Discovered in Romania. BM 1934, 934 A specimen from the collections of The Natural History Museum, London

Neanderthal Man artifact (Tabun)
A tool thought to have been used by Neanderthal Man (Homo neanderthalensis) Discovered at Tabun, Israel

Clay Toy Turtles and spiders
Watercolour by Olivia Fanny Tonge (1858-1949). Captioned: Clay Toy Turtles with Heads and Legs that waggle costing one anna. Cawnpore

A Swanscombe Hand Axe
One of many hand axes that have been discovered at the Homo neanderthalensis site of Swanscombe, Kent which was inhabited about 500, 000 to 300, 000 years ago

Soapstone Venus
A cast of a figure of a woman, carved in soapstone. The original was discovered in the caves of Balzi Rossi, Italy and is now held at the Museum of the National Antiquities of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Flint hand-axe
Late Palaeolithic from Farnham, Surrey, England

Venus figurine from the Czech Republic
Female figure 27, 000 years old in fired clay from Moravia (Dolni Vestonice, Czech Republic). Gravettian culture, Upper Palaeolithic

Malachite cameo and malachite-chrysocolla mass. Malachite (copper carbonate hydroxide), has a distinctive green banding and belongs to the carbonate class

Fire brigade manual fire pump (museum exhibit)
An example of the type of manual fire engine that would have been pulled to the scene of a fire. These were unlikely to be used by the Insurance brigades

MBW-MFB-London Fire Brigade museum artefact
MFB rolled leather fire hose with screw couplings. Copper rivets were introduced in around 1819. This type of hose was phased out in the late 1800s

Manually pulled and operated Insurance Company engine
A manually pulled and operated Insurance Company fire engine

Sir John Soanes Museum, 1864
Sir John Soanes Museum at Lincoln Inn Fields, 1864. Victorian visitors admire the Monks Parlour. 1864

Early aviation artefacts
A selection of early aviation artefacts associated with Louis Bleriot and Alcock & Brown. There are two pieces of wood from the plane in which Bleriot flew the English Channel in 1909

Kennedy Visits Berlin
A Card commemorating John F. Kennedys presidential visit to Germany, with portraits of him and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer

Old School Archaeologist
Two Archaeologists/Antiquarians examine an ancient artefact

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