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⚱Pottery helps find past societies and here is a quirky mix of fragments from Ribchester [Bremetennacum Veteranorum].

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2021-11-12

Tombstone of a Asturian cavalryman from Ribchester and it’s likely original colour. The mixing of people’s from Spain, above, Hungary (Sarmatia) and Syria (Aelius Antoninus from Melitenis on the Euphrates) with the Celtic Brigantes is an amazing melting pot.

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2019-11-02

Ribchester has its very own Trajan’s column showing the history of the town including the discovery of the wonderful soldier’s helmet

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2019-11-02

Produced in 1798, this watercolor shows how the Ribchester Helmet looked on its discovery. A hoard of military metalwork was found in 1796 by a boy playing behind his father's house in the village of Ribchester, Lancashire, the site of a Roman fort.

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2019-10-03

has the most wonderful watercolours of the Helmet. Produced in 1798, this image shows how it looked on its discovery before the conservation which makes it look as it does in the galleries today.

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2018-11-09

When two jobs collide... watercolour of - lucky to have looked after both!

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2017-07-08