Gold coin produced by the local British tribe – the Artbates in the 1st Century BC.
Evidence of the Vale of the White Horse being a frontier zone comes from the distribution of such coins.
Wantage Museum
Sites in Oxfordshire
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‘Mother Oxfordshire‘
watercolour painting
(c) Jane Tomlinson, 2003
Articles
The remains of a wooden well dating back to the Bronze Age have been discovered during works to build a new road.
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Archaeologists working on a housing development in Oxfordshire claim to have found one of the oldest complete pots in the country (5,500 years old).
Nice photo at
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-12698321
Ulster Museum came a close second (I’d have been happy to see it win). Even happier that the count has now been checked and verified and the wonderful Ashmolean has actually won.
artfundprize.org.uk/2010/vote/poll-results-final.php
Many thanks to anyone who voted via the News section on TMA.
EDIT: Tuesday 20th July
Visited the Ashmolean today and was told that although they won the popular vote the prize was actually awarded by the judges to Ulster. No one seemed to mind as the consensus was that the Ulster Museum is brilliant and deserved to win.
Old news really ... but I seemed to have missed it.
bbc.co.uk/news/10464899
The new Ashmolean Museum in Oxford was opened to the public last weekend 7/8th November.
Today, I had some spare time and as it was wet and windy it was a perfect day to visit. The ground floor is given over to the Ancient World. Unfortunately the European Prehistory room is not ready yet (I was told to give it another month). I spent some time in the ‘Italy before Rome’ room, looking at the Etruscan alphabet among many other things.
A marvellous resource and a beautiful building:
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
University of Oxford
Beaumont Street
Oxford OX1 2PH
Tel: 01865 278000
ashmolean.org
Free admission: Tuesday – Sunday 10am-6pm
Bank Holiday Monday: 10am-6pm
(Closed Monday except BH)
Site of Bronze Age burial site found during dig in Oxford
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8336475.stm
Ancient Earthwork Types In Oxfordshire
Interesting reference material
Simple site showing the hill forts in and around the Vale Of The White Horse.
Fantastic place! See the oldest bread in Britain!