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Handaxe, found at the spitalfields allotments, Alton dating from around the middle stone age, around 400,000 years ago.

Sitefind, metal detector find, Roman lead defixio (lead curse tablet) dedicated to Neptune, found River Hamble, Hampshire ‘Curse tablets’ of the Greco-Roman world are associated mostly with civil and ...

Collected in 1944 by flight commander Tom Wallis, found at Yew Hill, Kings Somborne, Test Valley Hampshire. ...

Intaglio (gem stone) Roman 2nd century. From Manor Farm, Kimpton, Found in 1930s.

Sitefind, Rhenish ware motto beaker with motto reading "VI(TV)LA" a roman term of endearment based on the latin word vitvla meaning a bull calf, equivalent term still used today in Germany fig 51, page 72, no 31, end of the 3rd century, found Cuckoo's Corner, Neatham, Alton, Hampshire, 1969 - 1970
Rhenish ware is generally thought to be an early 3rd century import, although the Neatham deposits were probably not made until around the year 300.

Sitefind, Roman two fragments from the shoulder of a gold ring, and a bezel collar, part of the Silchester Hoard found by metal detector at Silchester, Hampshire, 1985-1987.
The gem is from a silver ring which had almost totally disintegrated. See N1997.20.60.