Comb, Saxon
Made of bone/antler part of the head of the comb is missing but 18 teeth remain. Found in Wraybury.
Bone disc, Anglo-Saxon
Perforated bone disc with incised decorative line on one side. It probably would have been used to weigh a spindle when wool was wound by hand. A woman who spun was called a spinster. Found in Wraysbury. Possibly Anglo-Saxon.
Indian Elephant Molar, about 1900
Indian elephant's molar tooth from its jaw 'upper M3'. This was found in Taplow gravel beds, near Maidenhead. When is was found remains unknow however the museum acquired it in the 1950s. It was originally recorded in the museum collection as having been a Mammoth's tooth. In 2011 curators at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History identified the tooth as an upper molar of an Indian elepha
Human Remains, Skull, Neolithic Period
Found in the River Thames near Monkey Island, Bray, this highly mineralised human skull is between 10,500 and 4,500 years old, belonging to either the Mesolithic or Neolithic period. The person’s body may have been placed in or near the river as a funeral rite; – it could also, of course, have arrived there through geological processes (erosion and deposition). Over the course of time, however