14/1965/8
This axehead is made of stone from the Italian Alps but was shaped in Brittany.
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95/1995
Ground and polished axeheads were produced in vast numbers during the Neolithic period.
760/1989
This axehead is made from greenstone found in Cornwall.
407/1987
Polished axeheads like this were highly prized items as much effort was needed to create them.
81/1984
346/1970/S8
103/1994/sf1
This unusually shaped axe may have been a local copy of a European jadeite axe.
COR346
COR347
SOM013
SOM022
WIL353
SOM048
DOR069
DEV046
300/1988/2301
This porringer was found in a large rubbish pit in Exeter dating from 1680 to 1690.
1/2009
One of five metal vessels found in he low tide area near Churston.
73/1921/21/PRIORIS
Fruit from a collection of specimens and photos chiefly concerned with economic botany belonging to J R Jackson of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
15/1973/1
This postcard shows the Ethnography and Archaeology gallery in this museum and is thought to date from the 1920s.
130/1973
This postcard photograph dates from the early stages of the First World War and is titled “Part of Kitchener’s new army at Exeter”.
57/1972/2
This postcard records the River Exe frozen solid in February 1917.
57/1972/7
This postcard records the river Exe in flood at the Quay in January 1918.
57/1972/8
This postcard records the flooded River Exe in January 1918.
TTNCM : 150/2009
This poster, promoting rail travel, is by Frank Wootton for British Railways and shows the Exmoor village of Luccombe.
456/2008
Used by ladies for holding a small bouquet or posy of flowers.
49/1916/20
This finely made burnished pot is in the shape of a cocoa bean.
117/1934/1
The Chancay inhabited the central coast of Peru, and were conquered by the Chimú, then the Inca.
A619
30/1956
Here we have a burnished jar in the shape of a reed (tule) boat riding through the cosmic sea.
50/1953
Ceramic vessel designed to hold water.