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The "Malone Hoard", consisting of 19 finely polished stone axes found at Danesfort in Northern Ireland. The axes, which are made from a stone called porcellanite, are too large and heavy for practical use, so they are thought to have had a ceremonial purpose. 4000-2000 BCE, Ulster Museum
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Jane Austen's portable mahogany desk was bought by her dad The Rev George Austen in Basingstoke at Ring Brothers in Dec 1794 as a present for his daughter born 16th Dec 1775. They lived 7 miles away at Steventon Parsonage where in 1796 she began the 1st draft of Pride and Prejudice.
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Bronze statuette of Sucellus, Gaulish deity associated with boundaries - of land and between living/dead - whose symbols include the mallet, wolf skin and jar. Five small mallets radiate from a large one behind him. Vienne, Isère, 1st-2nd AD, from a household shrine. Walters Art Museum
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The 4th century CE Villa Romana del Casale in Sicily, is renowned for holding one of the world's largest and finest collection of in-situ Roman mosaics, covering over 3500 m². Preserved by a 12th-cent. mudslide, the villa complex sat on 22 acres, roughly equivalent to 17 football fields
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Samples of some of the marbles used in the Roman Empire. For centuries, all sorts of different marbles were methodically sought and brought from all the reaches of the empire. Myriad marbles covered the walls and floors of the Imperial buildings. Rome was a richly colorful place...
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