Brief description: flint hand axe, found at Manor Road allotments, Mere, Wiltshire, neolithic

length: 130 mm

width: 55 mm

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Brief description: bronze rapier, incomplete, found on Keysley Down, Kingston Deverill, Wiltshire, middle bronze age

length: 180 mm

width: 51 mm

Classifications:
archaeology | bronze age, mid |
Material: metal bronze
Condition: ?

Brief description: stoneware flagon, personalized for Joseph Ball, The George, Mere, Wiltshire, mid 19 cen

Associated date: 1851

width: 62 mm

height: 60 mm

Classifications:
trade | innkeeper |
Material: clay stoneware
Condition: fair

Brief description: copper halfpenny token, issued by John Wilkinson, ironmaster, 1791, found on the Lynch, Mere, Wiltshire

Classifications:
society | money |
Material: metal copper
Condition: fair

Brief description: halfpint milk bottle used by Lordsmead Dairy, Mere, Wiltshire, early 20 cen

Associated person: Lordsmead Dairy

Associated date: 1901

height: 158 mm

diameter: 64 mm

Classifications:
agriculture | dairy |
Material: glass
Condition: fair

Brief description: 3 fragments of encaustic tile, possibly associated with Mere Castle, Mere, Wiltshire, 14th century

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Brief description: bottle, broken by accident, not repairable

Classifications:
trade | chemist |
Material: glass
Condition: poor

Brief description: glass bottle, found in the Shreen River, Mere, Wiltshire, late 19 cen

height: 62 mm

width: 22 mm

Classifications:
trade | chemist |
Material: glass
Condition: fair

Brief description: brass penny ha’penny token, issued by W. Green, Angel Inn, Mere, late 18th – early 19th century, dug up in Angel Lane, Mere, Wiltshire

Classifications:
society | money |
Material: metal ?
Condition: fair

Brief description: copper halfpenny, dug up in Angel Lane, Mere, Wiltshire, issued by George I, 1723

Classifications:
society | money |
Material: metal copper
Condition: poor