Highlights to see in the Archaeology Gallery at The Collection
In the archaeology gallery at The Collection: Art and Archaeology in Lincolnshire visitors can enjoy a wealth of artefacts spanning over 300,000 years of human history from prehistory through to the medieval period.
These artefacts tell the story of Lincolnshire, and help us to learn about the people who have lived where we live now. The artefacts selected below are highlights from the collections and take the visitor through almost half a million years of life in Lincolnshire including the Stone Age, Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, Viking and Medieval periods.
1. Welton le Wold stone axes
The oldest human-made tools currently known in Lincolnshire, dating to c.300,000 years ago.
2. Bronze Age gold
These are some of the oldest gold artefacts in Europe
3. Fiskerton log boat
An impressive boat made from a single tree trunk
4. Gaius Valerius tombstone
Tombstone of a Roman soldier who lived and died in Lincoln.
5. Lead tank from Walesby
Part of an early Christian Roman lead baptismal font dating from the 4th Century
6. Anglo Saxon grave goods
Complete glass beaker, gold pendant and sleeve or wrist clasp.
7. Anglo Saxon hanging bowls
Hanging bowl from Loveden Hill is one of the best examples of its type
8. Early Medieval Lincoln Coin Die and Seal Matrix
Rare 11th Century seal matrix for sealing documents with wax.
9. Civil War armour and sword
Two pieces of armour found close to the battlefield of Winceby
10. The Lincoln Plesiosaur
Example of a marine reptile from the seas covering Lincolnshire 180 million years ago
