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Home / Reference / Museums / Science / Archaeology / United Kingdom
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- Archaeolink Prehistory Park, Aberdeenshire - Aims to present prehistory through a mixture of reconstructions, actual sites and an indoor centre: the archaeodome.
www.archaeolink.co.uk
- Archaeology Museum, University of Liverpool - The School of Archaeology, Classics and Oriental Studies houses a large Egyptian collection and objects from listed Near Eastern, Classical and British sites. Visitor information.
www.liv.ac.uk/Archaeology_Classics/museum.html
- Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology - Attached to the University of Oxford. Antiquities collections range from Palaeolithic to Victorian, from Egypt to Britain. Exhibitions, publications, news.
www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk
- British Museum: Britain - Collections which trace the story of Britain from prehistory to the present day.
www.british-museum.ac.uk/world/britain/britain.html
- Butser Ancient Farm - Replica of an Iron Age farm circa 300 BC, with buildings, animals and crops. Both a museum and an open-air laboratory for research into the Iron Age and Roman periods. Photos, information for visitors and schools.
www.butser.org.uk
- Corinium Museum - The museum is noted for its imaginative displays of Roman Cirencester, so we might expect this witty shockwave mosaic design. Virtual gallery, news, events, education, visitor information.
www.cotswold.gov.uk/museum/flash/corinium.htm
- Creswell Crags Museum and Education Centre - At the east end of a gorge honeycombed with caves in which Ice Age hunters lived. An exhibition "The Age of Ice" tells the story of human and animal survival in the harsh climate of the last Ice Age.
www.creswell-crags.org.uk
- Flag Fen - At Easter and in the Summer archaeologists can be seen excavating this unique site, where waterlogging has preserved evidence of a prehistoric way of life. Iron Age and Bronze Age Roundhouses have been reconstructed. Rare breed animals. Visitor information.
www.eastmidlands.info/flagfen
- Jorvik Viking Centre - Built on the site where the York Archaeological Trust found the amazingly well-preserved remains of part of Viking Jorvik (York). A massive range of evidence was recovered and has been used to recreate every last aspect of everyday life.
www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk
- Kilmartin House Museum - Archaeology museum on the West Coast of Scotland. An interactive map leads to photographs, description and bibliography for 150 sites scattered over the rich archaeological landscape of the Kilmartin Valley. Also feature on ancient music.
www.kht.org.uk
- Marischal Museum - University of Aberdeen's collection of Scottish archaeology and folk life, foreign ethnography, Egyptian antiquities, numismatics and militaria. Location plan, exhibitions, services, conservation, educational resources.
www.abdn.ac.uk/marischal_museum
- Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne - Imaginative on-line galleries (with sound and video) present the region's archeology and history: Stone-Age hunter gatherers, temple to the god Mithras, Hadrian's Wall, object of the month from an outstanding collection.
museums.ncl.ac.uk/archive
- Museum of the Iron Age - Uses reconstructions and displays of finds to tell the story of Danebury, the Iron Age hill fort excavated by Professor Barry Cunliffe and his team. Information for schools and visitors.
www.hants.gov.uk/museum/ironagem/index.html
- Old Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology - The former mill houses the archaeological collections of Durham University. Photographs, history, exhibitions, visitor information.
www.dur.ac.uk/Archaeology/FullingMill
- Pitt Rivers Museum - At the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography in Oxford houses archaeological and ethnographic objects from all parts of the world. History and collections, visitor information.
www.prm.ox.ac.uk
- Roman Baths, Bath - The official site provides a guide to Roman Britain, the thermal springs at Bath, an online virtual tour and information for visitors.
www.romanbaths.co.uk
- Romans in Scotland - Online version of an exhibition at the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow. Standard or QuickTime-enhanced versions offered.
www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/HuntMus/romans
- Scottish Crannog Centre - A reconstruction of a lochside dwelling over 2,500 years old was built by the Scottish Trust for Underwater Archaeology at Loch Tay, Perthshire. Photographs and visitor information. 3D virtual crannog requires VRML2 (free download available.)
www.crannog.co.uk
- Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum - Roman Wallsend, the most completely excavated fort in Britain, lying at the eastern end of Hadrians Wall. History, images, events and visitor information.
www.segedunum.com
- The Mary Rose - Raised from the sea and on display at Portsmouth, this Tudor warship made waves in nautical archaeology. Detailed, scholarly history, photographs, description, visitor information.
www.maryrose.org
- The Roman Painted House at Dover, England - Roman archaeological site discovered in 1970 by the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit in Dover, and open to the public as a museum.
www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/2508/RPH.html
- Trimontium Exhibition - Permanent exhibition at the Ormiston Institute, Melrose, Scotland on the history of the Roman fort of Trimontium at Newstead. Description and visitor information provided by the Trimontium Trust.
www.trimontium.freeserve.co.uk/exhibition.html
- Vindolanda - Roman fort and settlement by Hadrian's Wall, where rare ink on wood letters were discovered. Visitor information, excavation news. Online shopping: books, reproduction Roman jewellery, weapons, figures, games.
www.vindolanda.com
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