Here's a bit of weekend fun: mystery objects from Crossrail's Bison to Bedlam exhibition. How many can you identify? Add your suggestions in the comments; answers in a few days.
Object one is smashed - but what got broken?
Object two: what are these and what are they made from?
Object three: what is it, and do you have any idea of its period?
Object four: I love the wonky lettering, but what was it stamped onto?
Object five: any idea what these small pots once held?
4 comments:
Well, I'm sure I can name some of 'em!
1. Chamber pot.
2. Early Victorian granite bicycle tyre spanners.
3. One of Drake's bowls from the Armada match.
4. A Potters Catarrh Pastillle.
5. Marmalade.
If the prize is to be locked in soundproofed underground bunker during the entire Olympic period, I accept now!
If that prize were available, I'd claim it myself!
(Oh, and one of those answers is absolutely correct!)
Not sure about No. 2 but
1. Is deffinately a chamber pot
2. Don't knoe but looks like iron
3 Is this a Bellamine Jug in stoneware for wine from Germany around Sixteenth Century?
4. A Brick
5. Medicine probably for venereal disease.
How lucky am I not to be in London when the Olympics is on.
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