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Tool. Old Stone Age, classic teardrop-shaped, hand axe found in Twydall. Made of flint.
North Kent is rich in stone tools – evidence of very early settlers and beautiful...
Copper alloy head of an Ancient Egyptian Military standard. Depicted are an Ibis and a...
Made of pudding stone with a distinctive rough texture this Quern Stone was used between...
This is a copper alloy helmet dating from the mid- 1st century BC and associated...
This wooden, prehistoric boat, discovered in September 1992, is thought to be some 3,000 years...
Single-edged sword blade (scramaseax).
This is a copper alloy, cruciform brooch with silver decoration dating from about 850 AD.
Buddhist lion joss stick holder, made of Blanc de Chine porcelain, from the Kangxi period...
Sir Cloudesley’s personal silver plate. Recovered in the 1960s by divers from the Channel off...
18th Century square plate from the HMS Invincible Collection.
Some 25% of the original oak frame of HMS Namur, a 3rd Rate Ship of...
When constructed, The Ropery was the longest brick building in Europe. The Ropery manufactured ropes...
The object is a large map which comprises a series of field sketches showing the...
The press was used to print the Rochester Gazette until 1868 when it ceased publication...
This object is a taxidermy dog. The live dog was found beside the body of...
A cast of the original Maidstone Iguanodon.
Spade-like cutting tool; ‘muddies’ fly tool; used for digging & loading mud (clay) on to...
This object was the last pattern of the Brennan torpedo, with the Mk I body...
Three masted warship. Dotterel Class Sloop
This object is a large Isihlangu Zulu shield. This shield was used during The Anglo-Zulu...
Specimen of one of the last Wild Cats living in England.
This object is a stereo plotter which uses stereo photographs to determine elevations. The stereo...
There is a simple yet sad tale of how The Beaney came to acquire a...
A sample of the cable from Tunbridge Wells telephone exchange, the first municipal telephone system...
This is a Medway doble fishing boat called “May”. May is “clinker built” which means...
Wooden crate, labelled ‘Birchington, Kent’ holding the skeleton of a giraffe. This giraffe was collected...
Taxidermy specimen of the Northern White Rhino. Made from the skin of an animal collected...
One of Percy’s cameras used to take some of the 30,000 photographs held in the...
The animals in the diorama were all collected by Percy Powell-Cotton during a series of...
This object is a set of medals awarded to James McCudden during his army career....
This object is a British First World War gas mask known as the PH hood....
Fragments of a First World War bomb dropped on the Drill Hall of HMS Pembroke...
A group of Lowland Gorilla taxidermy specimens.
Aveling and Porter were the largest manufacturers of traction engines and road rollers in the...
Museum record card for an elephant. Printed card with details of this one particular specimen,...
Pair of gender specific (one male, one female) headrests. They are manifestations of the differing...
Doll, made from scraps of materials found by a girl and turned into a doll...
This model of a Kwanyama homestead was built in Angola by Diana and Antoinette Powell-Cotton,...
Portable, pre-fabricated, truss bridge. It was developed by the British during the Second World War...
This object is a Butterfly Bomb, a German 2 kilogram anti-personnel sub-munition used by the...
A pair of RAF D Type gauntlets as worn by aircrew in bombers or large...
British Mk XVII contact sea mine, the design of which dates from the Second World...
This object is a V2 Rocket (technical name Aggregat-4), the world’s first long-range guided ballistic...
The Spitfire (ser. No.: TB752) is an original Mk XVI. Built at Castle Bromwich in...
The Royal Navy’s last operational Second World War Destroyer. She served in the Second World War...
This object is a Centurion AVRE 165, which is a support variant based on the...
A Margate Lifeboat. RNLB North Foreland is a Watson Class lifeboat, built by J Samuel...
Model B3 Sports 250cc Norman
The ‘O’ class submarine Ocelot, launched from Chatham in 1962 and represents the peak of...
Three sections of the Berlin Wall made of reinforced concrete from the area of the...
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