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Flint core Late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic Surface find collected from Silkstead, Otterbourne, Hampshire This flint core is a by-product of the manufacturing of flint tools. The core was shaped ...

Flint axehead Neolithic Surface find collected from Silkstead, Otterbourne, Hampshire This small axehead would have been used for tree clearance by Hampshire's first farmers. It was created from a ...

Clay loomweight Medieval, probably 12th or 13th century Found during excavations at Back Street, St Cross, Winchester, in the late 1950s This is one of a group of loomweights found in a heap in a ...

Copper alloy thimble Post-medieval, probably 17th century Found during excavations by Wessex Archaeology at the Evans Halshaw site (now Silchester Place), Hyde Street, Winchester in 2000-2001 ...

Clay loomweight Believed to be of Bronze Age date Found at Bursledon Brick Fields, Swanwick, Hampshire and donated to the museum in 1928 This large clay object is thought to have been used to weight ...

Clay loomweight Believed to be of Bronze Age date Found at Melchet Park, Plaitford, Hampshire and donated to the museum in 1929 This large clay object is thought to have been used to weight the ...