Volunteer Anna takes has underaken research into Seend and the Kennet and Avon Canal.... The Kennet and Avon Canal which runs past Seend, was built

Student volunteer Anna takes a look at Holy Cross Church in Seend... Holy Cross Church, is a Grade 1 listed church (in 1962), funded by

This fascinating artefact is a Bronze Age bone flute excavated by William Cunnington from bowl barrow Wilsford G23. The flute was found with the primary

For Local History month, volunteer Sasha has taken a look into the complex history of Empress Matilda, who had an important role in Devizes' history

This red glass bead was found in a Bell Barrow at Wilsford, found in the corner of a display, it may seem unremarkable but really

Volunteer Olly gives us an insight into one of his favourite objects in the Museum... This beautiful artefact is a perforated axe-head of tourmaline granite,

Images in our collection of the Robbers Stone, parish of West Lavington. Volunteer Tabitha tells of a gruesome Wiltshire story... On the A360 of West

1 iron spearhead, blade flat, bent at right angles to split socket, found on Rushall Down, Rushall, Wiltshire. The people we call Anglo-Saxons * were

This iron halberd head was found at foot of Morgan’s Hill, Roundway, Wiltshire, which is the site of the battle of Roundway Down, 1643, stamped

1 small bronze statuette of Mercury, found at Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire. The earliest large-scale statues had very simple forms driven by their manufacture, known as

These 5 Fossilised Plesiosaur vertebrae, found at the Kimmeridge Clay, are from the Jurassic period. They were found in the Great Western Railway Works, Swindon,

In Old English, the Axe was referred to as an æces, from which the Modern English word derives. Most axes found in early Anglo-Saxon graves

Around Europe, what are commonly referred to as ‘stone heads’, are frequently found, often in areas that are known to have been lived in by

The Roman Empire, by the beginning of the Common Era, had become one of the largest Empires on Earth, rivaled only by the Parthian Empire

England.  1642.  The First English Civil War has just begun with King Charles I of England and VI of Scotland fleeing London to Oxford after

In order to understand the Anglo-Saxon origins of the modern English, it is necessary to understand the extent of their continental cousins and the extent

Shamanism is where people are regarded as having access, and influence, in the world of good and evil spirits. Typically, such people enter a trance

In 1840, a barrow on Roundway Down was excavated to reveal a Saxon woman buried with various items, including a coin and a beautiful gold