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Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Exchequer standard yard of Queen Elizabeth I, 1588

1588

John Dee's crystal, Europe, 1582

1582

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Elizabethan nested weights

1588

Stjerneborg Observatory

1634 (print); 1581-1587 (observatory)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Portable universal equinoctial sundial, in brass,

1588

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Iron Weight

1910-130

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Flint weight, Syrian Khoirine system

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Box for avoirdupois weights

1588

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Earthenware bottle with long neck and loop handle

1600-1050 BCE

"Base-Ring" juglet

1600-1400 BCE

Piriform bottle with elongated neck and loop handle

1600-1050 BCE

"Base-Ring" juglet with handle

1600-1400 BCE

"Base-Ring" juglet with handle

1600-1400 BCE

"Base Ring" juglet with handle

1600-1400 BCE

"Base-Ring" juglet with handle

1600-1400 BCE

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Piriform bottle with handle

1600-1200 BCE

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad

1913; circa 900 CE

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Black haematite Syrian weight, barrel shaped, from Gaza, Phoenician system

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Albarello, earthenware, tin-glazed

1701-180

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE