British Museum Guided Tours

Archaeology at the British Museum

Date/time:
27 January 2011 - 10 March 2011
Thursdays 10.45am - 12.45pm
Venue:
The British Museum, London WC1B
Lecturer:
Geoffrey Toms
Fees:
All three visits £90.00
Single visit £35.00

With over 8 million objects from every culture, the British Museum is one of world's leading national museums. But with over 70 galleries to choose from it's easy to miss some of its less well-known, yet still fascinating, treasures.

In this series of tours, we take the time to look at some of these objects and artefacts in greater detail and focus on the museum's outstanding archaeological materials in the Roman Empire, Roman Britain and early Britain and Europe galleries.

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Course outline

27 Jan 2011 The Britain and Europe 800 BC - AD 43 Gallery

Including Basse-Yutz flagons, the Snettisham gold torque and the Battersea Shield.

17 Feb 2011 The Roman Empire Gallery

Including the Portland Vase, bronze and marble busts, and material from Pompeii.

10 Mar 2011 The Roman Britain Gallery

Including the Vindolanda writing tablets, the late Roman hoards of silver, the Hinton St Mary mosaic and the Lullingstone paintings.