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Objects on Tour: Wessex Women
Our four partner museums have explored their collections and found objects that tell the untold stories of our region’s women and their past – from the unexpected to the ground-breaking and intriguing. These objects will be travelling between the 4 Museums until October 2020.
The four items touring at present are:
- Iron Age Pots discovered by archaeologist Maud Cunnington, from Wiltshire Museum
- Downton Lace Pillow, from Salisbury Museum
- Purbeck Stone Carvings by Elizabeth Muntz, from Dorset County Museum
- Granny Cousin’s Lantern and Bonnet, a Victorian “Knocker-upper”, from Poole Museum
If you have membership to any of the Wessex Museum Partnership Museums you have free entry to each Museum.
Wessex Museums comprises 4 Museums in our region, Dorset County, Poole, Salisbury and Wiltshire Museum, working together to tell the story of Dorset and Wiltshire. The aim is to share knowledge, artefacts and skills to a wider audience exploring the stories of Wessex and encouraging the communities around each museum to be involved and contribute.
Roundway Abbess
In around 670AD, a important Saxon lady was buried on Roundway Down, close to Devizes. She was laid to rest on a wooden bed, wearing a Christian cross on a small enamelled disc, mounted on a chain between two gold pins. The heads of the
School medal awarded at Frances Elliott’s School for Young Ladies
Silver school prize medal inscribed Mrs Elliott’s Ladies Boarding School, Devizes on one side and A Reward of Merit from Mr Burgess, teacher of dancing to Miss Clark, 12th June 1822. Frances Elliott (1782 – 1860) was a governess and teacher, running schools for young