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The Wessex Gallery - Salisbury Museum
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Visited the new Wessex Gallery in the Salisbury Museum today. It is £8.00 for a ticket but the ticket remains valid for a year so if you want to immerse yourself in the this marvelous gallery - very good value.

Where to start - I started at the Easton Down Flint mines discovered by Dr J.F.S. Stone (1899-1957). He also dug the first ever trench across the Stonehenge Cursus near Fargo Plantation in 1947.

Some very important skeletons and grave finds.
- the Amesbury Archer along with his grave artifacts including the oldest worked gold ornaments found in this country.
- Boscombe Bowman
- Stonehenge Archer
- late Neolithic grave goods, highly decorated beakers and miniature vessels.

From the Iron Age there is the Tilsbury Hoard (200 silver and seven gold slaters). and the wonderful Bowerchalke gold coins with the image of Apollo on one side and horses on the other.

http://www.visitwiltshire.co.u[...]to-do/salisbury-museum-p138223


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Posted by tjj
1st August 2014ce
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