Brief description: pair of Fowson gloves, made by Dent Fownes Ltd., glovemakers, Warminster, Wiltshire, early 20 cen

Classifications:
trade | glove maker |
Material: leather
Condition: fair

Brief description: earthenware potsherd, bronze age herringbone decoration, bronze age

Classifications:
archaeology | bronze age |
Material: clay earthenware
Condition: conserved

Brief description: earthenware potsherd, possibly saxon, 5 to 11 cen.

Classifications:
archaeology | saxon |
Material: clay earthenware well fired, hand made vessel, slightly burnished surface
Condition: fair

Brief description: plaster portable font, modelled on that in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, used for the baptism of sick infants in their homes, 19 century

Classifications:
society | religion |
Material: plaster
Condition: good

Brief description: piece of lead flashing possibly from Mere Castle, dug up on Castle Hill, Mere, Wiltshire in 1887

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

width: 0.36 m

length: 0.40 m

Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material: metal lead
Condition: bent, pierced with rectangular holes, probably original

Brief description: antique Victorian cast iron Bully Beef bull’s head tin can openers, late 19th or early 20th century

Classifications:
domestic | kitchen |
Material: metal iron
Condition: fair

Brief description: pair of gloves made by Dent Fownes Ltd., glovemakers, Warminster, Wiltshire, early 20 cen

Classifications:
trade | glove maker |
Material: leather
Condition: fair

Brief description: fragment of stone carving said to be a Trinity, from a church, East Knoyle, Wiltshire

height: 0.30 m

width: 0.38 m

Classifications:
society | religion |
Material: stone
Condition: worn

Brief description: piece of an inscribed stone from Mere Castle, Mere, Wiltshire

height: 0.24 m

width: 0.69 m

Classifications:
environment | buildings |
Material: stone
Condition: fair

Brief description: 4 glazed coarseware potsherds, found near Mere, Wiltshire, 18 cen. ?

Classifications:
domestic | kitchen |
Material: clay earthenware
Condition: fair