Brief description: photograph, interior , St Michaels Church, Mere, Wiltshire c 1897

Place: Mere

County: Wiltshire

width: 118 mm

height: 194 mm

Classifications:
society | religion |
Material:
Condition: fair

Brief description: two pieces of wood, scorched in the fire of 1220, from St. Michael’s Church, Mere, Wiltshire, probably Saxon

Associated date: 1220

length: 161 mm

length: 64 mm

Classifications:
society | religion |
Material: wood
Condition: scorched & wormeaten

Brief description: photograph, chancel of St Mary’s Church, Alton Barnes, Alton, Wiltshire 1970’s

County: Wiltshire

width: 37.5cm

height: 28.5cm

Classifications:
society | religion |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: souvenir booklet of Silver Jubilee of George V, 1935

height: 13cm

width: 9cm

Classifications:
events |
Material:
Condition: good

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

Classifications:
domestic | kitchen | trade | ironfounder |
Material: metal iron
Condition: some rust

Brief description: fourchette cutter, for cutting the gussets between the fingers of a glove, used by Dent Fownes Ltd., glovemakers, Warminster, Wiltshire, late 19 cen

Associated date: 1851

Classifications:
trade | glove maker |
Material: iron wood
Condition: usable

Brief description: fossil ammonite and cast, Schloenbachia varians, J. Sowerby, from a wall in Dark Lane, Mere, Wiltshire, from lower chalk, Cenomanian, upper Cretaceous age

Classifications:
natural science | geology |
Material:
Condition: good

Brief description: silver short-cross penny, marked Henricus, issued by John, London mint, moneyer, Walter, c1210-18

diameter: 17.5 mm

weight: 1.33 gm (to within 0.005)

Classifications:
society | money |
Material: metal silver
Condition: good

Brief description: silver halfgroat, found in Southbrook, Mere, Wiltshire, issued by Henry VIII, 1509-47

diameter: 19 mm

weight: 1.17 gm (to within 0.005)

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

Brief description: silver sixpence, found in garden of Angel Inn, Mere, Wiltshire, issued by Elizabeth I, 1572

diameter: 25 mm

weight: 2.59 gm (to within 0.005)

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