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« on: December 07, 2011, 04:39:16 PM » |
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Scores of interesting items have been added to North Lincolnshire's museum collection during the past year, including Viking and Roman artefacts unearthed by metal-detectors.
North Lincolnshire Museums Service "collects relevant objects to help tell the story of the area" and also helps local people "develop a sense of place and pride in the rich heritage of North Lincolnshire."
North Lincolnshire Council, which operates the area's museum in Oswald Road, Scunthorpe, and Normanby Hall, issues an annual update of acquisitions.
The latest reveals 128 over the past year, covering archaeology, natural sciences, social and local history, and decorative arts.
Most items in the collection are donated by the owners, but a number are bought with grants or from the service's own small purchase budget.
Some of the most important to be added during the past year were found by metal detector-users and acquired by the museum service "through the treasure process."
A silver medieval chape (metal scabbard mount or tip) from Alkborough.
A Viking silver ingot from Barton upon Humber.
A medieval silver-gilt lozenge-shaped brooch from High Risby.
A Roman silver finger ring from Winteringham.
Other important additions include:
The finds and paper archives from the excavation of a small Iron Age to Roman settlement at the Timberlands development in Ashby.
A number of documents and photographs relating to the Sheffield family and Normanby Hall, including an accounts ledger for the London house and Normanby Estate in the early 20th century. There are also photographs of the family and servants.
Photographs and documents relating to Wilfred Dinsdale's service in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.
Framed apprenticeship indenture of George Henry Pittwood to George Pittwood, as a shipwright in Gainsborough, in 1865. George Henry was an ancestor of Alderman Edwin Pittwood, after whom North Lincolnshire Council's main office block, off Ashby Road, is named.
A 1959 Royal Navy uniform including a sash from HMS Jupiter and an HMS Neptune cap, which belonged to Peter Wilkinson, of Ashby.
William Frank Mullard, of Ashby's, Second World War Royal Navy uniform and an album of photographs taken by him.
Mr White, of Scunthorpe's, 1966 Royal Navy Auxiliary Service uniform.
A 1956 Princess Margaret-style wedding dress, matching shoes and head-dress worn by Mrs Roberts, of Broughton.
Model of a Hornsby's bus - transferred from Hull Museums.
A painted wooden sign from the Richard, Thomas and Baldwin's Ltd brickworks in Crowle – transferred from The East Riding of Yorkshire
Museum Service.
A 1950s model of Scunthorpe Cattle Market made by Cyril Cooper, borough surveyor.
A zinc medical horse collar. This was used to heal sores on the necks and shoulders of workhorses at Holme Farm, Alkborough, during the 1940s and 1950s.
Three ship models from Barton Boat House - the first steam ferry to sail between Barton and Hull during the 1820s, and the Kiero and Verdun Humber ferryboats.
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