A plan of the Great Road from Tyburn to Uxbridge and from Brent Bridge to Brentford in the County of Middlesex, surveyed in 1769 by Thomas Lediard, the agent and surveyor for the Commission for Streets and Waterways. It shows the route of the turnpike
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Cast bronze finial, often described as a chariot horn cap, of the Iron Age (100BC-AD50). Decorated with a soft out-lined low relief design of three linked palmettes, the piece is said to have had traces of red enamel inlay when first found, but none now
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This unfinished stone axe-hammer has incomplete perforations on each side of the butt. It dates from the Early Bronze Age (2,000BC – 1,700BC) and may have come from the Thames at Old England, Brentford, like other items in Layton’s collection. Dimensions: L 200 mm; W
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Elongated cushion macehead made in the Early Bronze Age (2,500BC-2,000BC). The macehead is made from black silicified volcanic ash, banded in black and white. Its whole surface is polished, with oval section, round ends and a tubular perforation. It is a superb piece of craftsmanship
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5,200 archaeological and ethnographic artifacts including items from UK, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Peru and N. America.
A remarkable collection of 3,500 coins, tokens and medals - Roman, Greek, Indian, American and British.
4,000 maps and prints and 150 framed prints, maps and paintings.
8,000 from the 16th century to 19th century, remain in the collection, together with a small collection of manuscripts and some of Layton's personal papers.
Thomas Layton lived in Brentford, Middlesex between 1826 and 1911... read more
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