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Material
Date

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

1972-3

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Astronomical Rotula produced by Thomas Jones 1817

1817

Drawing showing gas light apparatus at the Royal Mint Gasworks

1817

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

Brass Sikes hydrometer by R.B. Bate

1816

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Engraving of Graving dock

1840-160

print; carriage design;

1816

Pottery vase found at Nihawnad, Persia

3000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

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

silver plated bronze religious medallion

1816-1817

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Portrait of Constance Garstin in Darjeeling, India

1861-08

Four Barrell Piston Pump by Braithwaite

1817

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"

1899/12

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

Coloured aquatint, View in Callendar Park

1817

Portrait. Francis Bacon. Engraving 1817

1817

Medal, gilt, bronze

1817

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

George Bidder, the Mental Calculator

1817

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

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

1-79 CE; before 1914

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Bronze prize medal of the Paris Medical School

1817

Trade token

1817

Silver medal

1816-1817

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Inauguration of statue of Andreas Vesalius

1817

Reproduction of John Dalton's Atomic Formulae, 1793-1803

1793-1803; 1925

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE