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ALT A still image from a digital mural at the Yorkshire Museum. It depicts the site of Star Carr in winter. Two conical houses are in the middle distance, with birch woodland to the left and the edges of a frozen lake on the right. A fire is burning outside the houses and wooden structures are visible. A person is walking between the houses. Snow is falling.
ALT A still image from a digital mural at the Yorkshire Museum. It depicts the site of Star Carr in winter. Two conical houses are in the middle distance, with birch woodland to the left and the edges of a frozen lake on the right. A fire is burning outside the houses and wooden structures are visible. A person is walking between the houses. Snow is falling.
ALT Large Roman stone sarcophagus with a lid. The lid is broken in one place. The base of the sarcophagus has an inscription in a recessed square, flanked by pelta (curved shield) shapes. The inscription reads IVL(IE) FORTVNATE DOMO / SARDINIA VEREC(VNDIO) DIO / GENI FIDA CONIVNCTA MARITO, which translates as "To Julia Fortunata of Sardinia, faithful wife to her husband Verecundius Diogenes."
ALT Roman complete clear greenish glass unguent bottle. The base is conical, with a long, narrow neck and a rolled rim. A scale bar shows that it is approximately 9cm tall and 3cm in diameter (at the base).
ALT Roman silver denarius coin. Obverse (head) side showing the head of the god Sol facing right, wearing a crown of solar rays. In front is an X countermark.
ALT Roman silver denarius coin. Reverse (tails) side showing the goddess Luna driving a two-horse chariot (biga). Above her are three stars and a crescent moon. Beneath the horses is another star. At the bottom are the ligatured letters MN.AQUIL, the name of the politician who issued the coin.
ALT A mini tent made of cloth and bamboo canes
ALT Paper instructions on how to make a Mesolithic headdress out of paper
ALT The replica Mesolithic House in the Museum Gardens based on the archaeological research at Star Carr
ALT St Mary's Lodge, York. The side facade of a 13th century building with lots of changes - there are blind arcades at ground level, scars where other buildings used to attached, a tiny window up high, and more. It's all built from pale coloured magnesian limestone. A small green door is built into one of the arches and the lodge is now offices.
ALT A 13th century limestone arch. It's an entrance into the Museum Gardens through the original Abbey Precinct wall the top of that wall is now missing and St Oswald's church rises behind it.
ALT Laminated paper sign reading "Yorkshire museum. Down the lane" with a large arrow pointing left.
ALT A nettle leaf with a squiggly, pale line- a mining pattern of the fly larvae living within.
ALT A jet pendant. It an elongated semi-circle in shape. The two wide faces are decorated with incised hemispherical lines (looking like a pair of rainbows) at the base. Above there are seven ring-and-dot stamps arranged at the apex with some intersecting incised lines. The edges are carved to look like a twisted band. There is a suspension hole drilled vertically through it and a fragment at the shoulder is missing. Is is about 40mm tall and black in colour.
ALT A Roman bracelet of 71 dark blue glass beads. 37 beads are diamond or triangular faceted and 34 are short cylinders. The beads have been restrung in an alternating pattern.