5/1946/409
This cylinder seal is made from black and brown serpentinite.
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5/1946/412
This cylinder seal is engraved with a contest scene showing a winged genie grasping the leg of a winged human-headed bull.
A3614
As Exeter became an important religious, political and economic centre so documents needed to be authenticated with official seals.
A3629/2
A Victorian cast of a wax seal of Bishop John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter between 1327-1369.
11/2018
A seal matrix was a personal object for wealthy individuals which was impressed into sealing wax to validate documents.
316/1911
This was found in Exeter in 1822 and is one of the finest examples of a medieval prior's seal in Britain.
L88/a
This seal is the oldest example surviving from any of the towns and cities of England.
L88/b
The inscription reads ‘S'PONTIS EXE CIVTATIS EXONIE’, meaning ‘the seal of Exe Bridge of the city of Exeter’.
63/1936/1
The bronze seal matrix depicts St Margaret thrusting a cross into the mouth of a dragon.
51/1916/99
K49/1
This Victorian ceramic seat is one of a pair, gifted to RAMM in 1892.
K49/2
91/1931/815
RAMM's senior curator of natural history retired at the end of April 2012 having worked at the museum for over 30 years.
91/1931/367
If protected from light, red seaweeds can retain their colour for hundreds of years.
263/1903/2880
This microscope slide contains a transverse section of a moa’s femur.
73/1921/17/PRIORIS
This seed is from a collection of specimens and photos chiefly concerned with economic botany belonging to J R Jackson of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
73/1921/49/PRIORIS
This seed is from a collection of specimens and photos chiefly concerned with economic botany collected by J R Jackson of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
4/2001/2
22/2001
Drift seed picked up on coast near Bude.
24/2001/1
This seed is often called ‘vegetable ivory’ because the innermost part of the seed looks very much like ivory and can be carved to make figures and trinkets.
24/2001/2
73/1921/23/PRIORIS
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Other names for this plant include monkey-bread tree because the soft, dry fruit is edible and upside-down tree because the branches look like roots.
73/1921/65/PRIORIS
These samples are from a collection of specimens and photos chiefly concerned with economic botany belonging to J R Jackson of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
73/1921/36/PRIORIS
These seeds are from a collection of specimens and photos chiefly concerned with economic botany belonging to J R Jackson of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
73/1921/39/PRIORIS
73/1921/41/PRIORIS
5 winged seeds from a collection of specimens and photos chiefly concerned with economic botany belonging to J R Jackson of Royal Gardens, Kew.
73/1921/43/PRIORIS
Winged seeds from a collection of specimens and photos chiefly concerned with economic botany collected by J R Jackson of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
73/1921/44/PRIORIS
The Indian almond (Terminalia catappa) is not related to the true almond.
73/1921/47/PRIORIS
These seeds are from a collection of specimens and photos chiefly concerned with economic botany collected by J R Jackson of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.