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SPMA logo The Newland's Miner. The logo shows a free miner of the Forest of Dean, depicted on the monumental brass to Robert Greyndour at Newland church, Gloucestershire. Greyndour died in 1443; the brass was engraved in London at about that time (drawn from a rubbing by Peter Brears).
West Country Households: Sunday Viewing, Taunton Museum (Sunday 16th September 2007)

Contrasts in English West Country Jugs from left to right, Verwood, North Devon & Truro. Kenneth J. Barton Collection, Somerset County Museums Service.

Contrasts in English West Country Jugs from left to right, Verwood, North Devon & Truro.

Part of the collection of bottles in the Ken Barton Collection.

Part of the collection of bottles in the Ken Barton Collection.

A Bristol tin-glazed earthenware plate, decorated in blue and bianco sopra bianco. K.J.Barton Collection., Somerset County Museums Service.

A Bristol tin-glazed earthenware plate, decorated in blue and bianco sopra bianco.

K.J.Barton, Somerset County Museums Service.

A collection of English cast metal vessels, formed by Roderick and Valentine Butler, Taunton Museum

A collection of English cast metal vessels, Taunton Museum

 

The collection of English cast metal vessels, formed by Roderick and Valentine Butler and recently acquired by Taunton Museum, is the finest such collection ever assembled. It ranges in date from the later Middle Ages to the 18th century. The Butlers' study of their collection has led them to identify the output of a number of foundries, prominent among which were producers in rural Somerset.

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