An interesting visit to the open day at the Oxfordshire County Council's Museums Resource Centre in Standlake. This centre houses the county's collections of archaeology, social history and natural history. At the moment, this includes the collections from Abingdon County Hall Museum, which is currently being refurbished.
There were many interesting artefacts on display, but star of the show had to be the Hanney brooch that was found in the fields near to Grove in 2009. We heard about the preparations being made to preserve this Anglo Saxon brooch over the next 6 months, after which it will go on public display including a stint in West Hanney. It really is quite a complex intricate object when seen close up alongside the various fragments found nearby.
During my wanders, I also saw a "Wantage Road" sign - presumably from close to the railway station in Grove. One of the larger items was the coach pictured above which belonged to Joseph Warner Henley who was MP for Oxfordshire in 1841-1878.
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