Fragments Gallery

Fragments of stone carving from the Abbey of St Saviour in Bermondsey (engraving)

781260 Fragments of stone carving from the Abbey of St Saviour in Bermondsey (engraving) by Basire, James (1730-1802); length: 19 cm; London Metropolitan Archives, City of London; (add.info.: Bermondsey is a district in south London, and a part of the London Borough of Southwark. To the west of Bermondsey lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe, and to the south, Walworth and Peckham. To the north is the River Thames.); A© London Metropolitan Archives ; British, out of copyright

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Leggings found with the Oetzi Iceman (goat hide)

WNB222119 Leggings found with the Oetzi Iceman (goat hide) by Copper Age, (4th millennium BC); approx 65cm long cm; South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, Bolzano, Italy; (add.info.: several pieces of leather sewn together with animal sinew; only go up to thigh on each leg; prehistoric mountaineer of 4th millennium BC; discovered at 3200 metres in Tyrolean Alps preserved in an ice glacier; probably died of arrowhead wound in left shoulder;); A© Wolfgang Neeb; out of copyright

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Moabitic pottery from Mr Shapira's 2nd Collection, 1872 (w/c & pencil on paper)

PEF316823 Moabitic pottery from Mr Shapira's 2nd Collection, 1872 (w/c & pencil on paper) by Conder, Claude (1848-1910); Palestine Exploration Fund, London, UK; (add.info.: dated 4th October 1872; Moses Shapira (1830-84); Jerusalem antiquities dealer, famous for selling fake Biblical artifacts; found by Pastor Weser at Madaba in August 1872;); A© Palestine Exploration Fund ; English, out of copyright

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