This is a series of papers about major or favourite objects in the Museum. It started as a series of talks, Ten Objects in the Museum, but has been expanded. More objects will covered from time to time.
The papers are:
The Black Ven Ichthyosaur and the Ichthyosaur known as ‘Kevin’ (Jurassic Period, c.195 million years old) by Paddy Howe
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Neolithic Polished Stone Axe (4-2,000 BC) by Felicity Hebditch
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Bronze Mirror from Uplyme (100 BC – 100 AD) by Max Hebditch
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Common Seal of Lyme (1272-1290) by Thea Hawksworth
Click this link to see a paper by Maurice Liddiard on the Lyme Regis Civic Regalia
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Counter or Rent Table (early 16th C) by Max Hebditch
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Tobacco Pipes (c.1640) by Felicity Hebditch
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Lead Shot from the Siege of Lyme (1644) by Felicity Hebditch
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The Shambles Bell and its Market House (1647) by Richard Bull & Max Hebditch
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Great Storm Clock (mid-18th Century) by Richard Bull
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Fire Engine (late 18th C) by Richard Bull following a talk by Thea Hawksworth
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Buckland’s Coprolite Table (c.1834) by Richard Bull
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Undercliff Model (c.1840) by Thea Hawksworth
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Hutchinson Victorian Family Journal (1886) by Thea Hawksworth
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Whistler’s Doll (c.1895) by Felicity Hebditch
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Entrenching Tool Handle – once thought to be Mary Anning’s Hammer (1888-92) by Richard Bull
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Objects from HMS Formidable (c.1913/4) by Richard Bull
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The Mary Ann of Lyme, an oil painting by A Beattie (1851) by Richard Bull
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The Court Suit by Richard Bull
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