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AN exhibition illustrative of recent field-work in British archology was arranged at the London Museum in connexion with the International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences which met in London on Aug. 1-6. Its primary object was to afford visitors from abroad some idea of the range and value of the material which archological investigation in Great Britain is adding to the study of prehistoric and early historic times; but it was also intended to interest and inform other visitors to the Museum whose acquaintance with archological studies might not be sufficiently intimate to keep them abreast with the activities of our research workers in the various provinces of the subject. The exhibits ranged from the pre-palolithic discoveries of Mr. Reid Moir in East Anglia to the objects of late Saxon and Viking times from districts so far removed from one another as Durham and Dorset. The choice of sites illustrated was discriminating and the number of objects shown kept as low as possible, consistently with the aim of making the exhibition representative. It is, therefore, difficult to single out any one or two exhibits as especially worthy of note. Colchester and Verulamium naturally figured prominently, as also did Mr. A. Keiller's exhibit from the Windmill Hill site. No doubt many visitors were glad to avail themselves of Mr. Keiller's offer of admission to view the complete collection of finds shown at Charles Street, Berkeley Square. The interest of the exhibition was much enhanced by the magnificent series of photographs from the air of various classes of site which was lent by the Ordnance Survey and described in an admirable catalogue. An excellent descriptive catalogue was also prepared for the archological exhibits. Probably it will be a long time before so completely representative a collection, drawn from widely distributed places of permanent exhibition, will be gathered together again.
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Exhibition of British Archæology. Nature 130, 196 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130196a0
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