Hidden at the back of the Museum's History of Devizes gallery is a very old prison door... The door once belonged to the Devizes County

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

The Jadeite axe was found near Breamore, Hampshire in the late 19th century somewhere near a place called Marsh Farm.  However, it is believed to

A hand axe is a prehistoric tool, that originated in the lower Acheulean and middle Palaeolithic periods. The typical hand axe has two faces, and

Ammonites are a type of fossil, and they were originally living creatures that lived in the Jurassic Cretaceous period, along with the dinosaurs.  They became

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

Chain mail has existed within Europe since the 4th century BCE, with it’s invention primarily being credited to the Celts of Gaul, despite evidence suggesting

An Iron Age saddle quern from All Canning's Cross, Wiltshire. Quern stones are tools which are commonly made out of stone, first used in the

An Incense or ‘Grape’ Cup covered with eight rows of closely set nodules (208 in total), each fitting into a hollow in the side with

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