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Faience amulet, eye, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Eye amulet

4000-30 BCE

Faience amulet, plaque of Anubis, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Faience amulet

4000-30 BCE

Plaster copy of statue of the 5th dynasty Egyptian priest Anisakha, original in Egyptian Museum Cairo 2600-2300 BCE

Plaster copy of statue of the 5th dynasty Egyptian priest Anisakha

2600-2300 BCE

Faience amulet, Isis nursing infant Horus, Egyptian, 4000 to 30 BC

Faience amulet

4000-30 BCE

Bas relief (copy) showing surgical operations, from tomb of Ankhmahor, Saqqara, Egypt, 6th Dynasy, 2600-2400BC

Bas relief (copy) showing surgical operations

2600-2400 BCE

Working model of James Watt's straight-line motion

Watt's Straight Line Motion, 1784

1784 (original); 1986 (model)

Models of four horses with draught harness based on plates to agriculture in A. Rees, cyclopedia, 1819, scale 1:16

Models of four horses with draught harness based on plates to agriculture in A. Rees

1988, model; 1701-1800, original

Alabaster bottle, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350 BCE

Plaster cast of Egyptian statue of seated robed man

Plaster cast of Egyptian statue

3000-500 BCE

Seated statue (copy) of chief Egyptian physician Nin-ankh-re, 6th Dynasty, Egypt, 2600-2400BC

Seated statue (copy) of chief Egyptian physician Nin-ankh-re

2600-2400 BCE

Plaster cast of Egyptian statue of Amenhotep, son of Hapu director of building at Thebes

Plaster cast of Egyptian statue of Amenhotep

2000-500 BCE

Stone herm or pillar, in form of a satyr, with a serpent entwined around lower half, was set up on Nadside to protect bracelet from evil, found on site of Forum of Augustus, Rome, 23BC-14

Stone herm or pillar

23-14

Faience amulet, djed, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Faience amulet, djed, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

4000-30 BCE

Earthenware oil jar, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580BC-1350BC

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Alabaster cosmetic ointment spoon in form of hand, Egyptian, 2000BC to 100BC

Alabaster cosmetic ointment spoon in form of hand

2000-1000

A brief history of the origin and progress of the royal harbour of Ramsgate / Kenneth Beacham Martin, deputy harbour master, 1831. [Ts. volume including 11 photos (total 87 leaves)]. Transcribed in 1975 by Robert B. Matkin of Margate from the original manuscript by Martin, deputy harbour master. Number 6 of 8 copies produced]

A brief history of the origin and progress of the royal harbour of Ramsgate / Kenneth Beacham Martin

1831; 1975

An Epistemological Re-assessment of Einstein's Special Relativity Theory, and of the Conceivable Alternatives to it [with, as an appendix, a] Translation of Fresnel's 1818 letter [to Arago] on the influence of terrestrial movement on optical phenomena /Robert R Traill. [1978-79, 32p. (photocopy)]

An Epistemological Re-assessment of Einstein's Special Relativity Theory

1978-79

Approximately 20 videos from the national collection for health education material (originally compiled by the Health Education Authority), made for and used by various British groups promoting health education, not including the Health Education Authority, 1987-98.

20 health education videos

1987-98

Two pieces of skull showing cauterisation scars, probably neolithic with photograph of similar, French, 2000BC(?)-1000BC(?)

Two pieces of skull showing cauterisation scars

2000-1000 BCE

Metatarsus, human, with tumour, late stone age, from underground chamber, Hal-Saflieui, Malta, excavated circa 1920

Metatarsus, human, with tumour

3600-2500 BCE

Papers including programmes, leaflets and tickets concerning visits to railway works, excursions and other special events, c. 1975-1993. 1 box.

Papers including programmes, leaflets and tickets concerning visits to railway works, excursions etc.

circa 1975-199

Part of skull showing depressed fracture, prehistoric cemetery, Gebel Moya. From a late Neolithic combined cemetery and settlement locality in south-central Sudan. It was excavated from 1911-14 over four seasons by Sir Henry Wellcome

Skull from excavation at Jebel Moya, 1911-1914

5000-1 BCE

2 pieces of metatarsal bone, showing extosis, from prehistoric cemetery at Gebel-Moya, Sudan

2 pieces of metatarsal bone

5000-1 BCE

Pencil drawing. Copy of a lithograph of 1846 of Wharfedale (Arthington) Viaduct, made c1985. Shows river with viaduct under construction. 400 x 500mm. Text:-Engineer, Thomas Grainger Esqre, Contractor james Bray Esqre, Foundation Stone laid March 31st 1846 by Henry Cooper Marshall Esqre, Chairman of Leeds and Thirsk Railway. The quantity of stone used in its erection will exceed 50000tons. Twentyone arches. span of Arch 60ft. Rise of Arch 21ft Greatest height 90ft. Lowest height 60ft. Length of viaduct 1510ft. Width of roadway 30ft. 15.748 x 19.685 in.

Wharfedale (Arthington) Viaduct

circa 1985, copy; 1846, original

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite, Old Kingdom, from plain of Memphis

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife

4000-1000 BCE

Possibly neolithic skull showing large trephined hole, 3500-2001BC

Possibly neolithic skull showing large trephined hole

3500-2001 BCE

Coin. Gold, of Britain. Obv. (concave), a horse galloping, palm branch and pellet above, inscribed CVNO. (Cunobelinus, king of the Trinobantes); rev., (convex), an ear of bearded wheat, CAMV. (Camulodunum, or Colchester). Struck about A.D. 30 (?). Diam. 5/8 in. 4.1 grams. 71. 7s. V&A no. 6712-1857.

Ancient British Gold Coin of Cunobelinus

30 CE

AJAX toaster, made in Japan in the late 1970s or early 1980s, used in Greater Manchester, one of the first of its kind to be imported into the UK, the design includes the unusual feature of a clockwork timer, rather than an automatic pop-up mechanism, meaning the toast could be put on for a precise ammount of time and preventing burnt breakfast.

Ajax toaster with clockwork timer

1975-1884

Glass bottle with cork stopper, contains bone and charcoal, reputedlyfound at a lake dwelling near Kilmarnock in Scotland, bottle English, 1878-1940

Glass bottle with cork stopper

5000-1800

Glass bottle, contains carbonised wheat from Bredon Hill, Worcestershire, collected by Mr Wheeler Smith

Glass bottle

5000-1800

5 dried dates on tissue paper in glass container with lid, probably grave goods, Egyptian, 3500BC to 1500BC

5 dried dates on tissue paper in glass container with lid

3500-1500

Model, Applegath eight-feeder vertical type revolving machine printing press, 1846 patent drawings, scale 1: 4.

Model, Applegath eight-feeder vertical type revolving machine printing press

1846; 1985

Deer-antler pick, used in flint mining from Grimes Graves

Deer-antler pick, used in flint mining from Grimes Graves

3000-1900 BCE

Reproduction in plaster of an early Korean rain gauge (circa 1821) which is a copy of an older one of 1770 at the Korean observatory in Incheon (formerly known as Chemulpo). (see note)

Reproduction of early Korean rain gauge, 1821, with base

1911-1923

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