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Featured Objects

K2235 Roman gold finger ring in snake form, 1-200AD, found by metal detection in Otford

Roman finger ring

Gramophone record in buff cardboard sleeve with handle from Muriel Aspin shop in Sevenoaks

Gramophone record

Hand written cards and decorated card boxes

Card games

Bronze Age axe head, © Kent County Council Sevenoaks Museum

Bronze axe head

Rectangular leather box with strap

Leather document box

Wooden curved style cricket bat

Early cricket bat

Wooden jail cell door with peephole, hatch and large iron bolts

Jail cell door

Elephas antiquus molar tooth, © Kent County Council Sevenoaks Museum. This now extinct species was twice the size of a modern African elephant, a relative of the woolly mammoth.

Elephas Antiquus tooth

Embroidery showing children waiting by steam train

Evacuee embroidery

Patchwork quilt

Soldier’s quilt

A Green Bulbous bottle with tapering stem and short rim.

Apothecary bottle

Metal box with chimney on the top and hole at the back, lens at the front

Magic lantern

Tile fragments from Otford Palace, © Kent County Council Sevenoaks Museum

Palace floor tiles

Black silk bodice with high collar, bead, sequin and pleat detail

Bodice

cast silver hook is engraved with decoration in the Trewhiddle Anglo Saxon style, appearing to show a bird in downward flight

Silver hook