by Tom Licence | Jun 1, 2019
Painted ceramic deer statuette, possibly a child’s toy. Damaged.
by Tom Licence | Apr 16, 2019
Ceramic German-import doll’s head with painted features. The teeth remain. The (glass) eyes and hair are gone.
by Tom Licence | Jun 16, 2018
Solitaire marble, battered exterior, with pink, white and red twirling strands inside.
by Tom Licence | May 13, 2018
Small ceramic meditating Buddha statuette with the base broken off. Possibly of foreign manufacture.
by Tom Licence | May 13, 2018
A large and a small cowrie shell. They may have been sold as souvenirs in shops on the seafront.
by Tom Licence | May 13, 2018
Treacle-glazed ceramic chicken whistle, made in a two-piece mould. There is a circular hole moulded in the chicken’s back, The tail is missing but would have had a hole to blow into.
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Toy terra cotta whistle, moulded as a girl in continental European dress (missing her head and left arm). This view shows the air vent in the underside.
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Toy terra cotta whistle, moulded in the form of a girl in continental European dress. Her head and left arm are missing.
by Tom Licence | Jun 23, 2016
Lead alloy toy wheel, painted red.
by Tom Licence | May 16, 2016
Ceramic dolls’ heads, discarded intact at Ringstead village rubbish dump.
by Tom Licence | May 16, 2016
An assemblage of household rubbish discarded in the 1870s at Brockdish rectory. Top left (from left to right): clinker, oyster shells, small bones, green glass German mineral water bottle fragments and aqua glass English wine/ ale bottle fragments, ‘black’...
by Tom Licence | Apr 13, 2016
Plain white ceramic ornament – part of a larger object – comprising three birds on a branch (rear view).
by Tom Licence | Apr 13, 2016
Plain white ceramic ornament – part of a larger object – comprising three birds on a branch, possibly parrots. Found amid ash and domestic refuse of the 1890s.
by Tom Licence | Apr 6, 2016
Dolls’ house tureen, decorated with a blue band and thinner bands of gold, with scrolled handles, The lid is missing. Found amid ash and domestic refuse of the 1890s.
by Tom Licence | Apr 6, 2016
Chipped plain white ceramic plate from a dolls’ house or dolls’ tea set. The underside is shown in the photo. Found amid ash and domestic refuse of the 1890s.
by Tom Licence | Apr 6, 2016
Large doll’s leg, with orange/ yellow boot and brown ribbon at the knee. The doll would have had a fabric body to which her ceramic limbs and head were attached. Found amid ash and domestic refuse of the 1890s.
by Tom Licence | Apr 6, 2016
Large doll’s leg, with orange/ yellow boot and brown ribbon at the knee. The doll would have had a fabric body to which her ceramic limbs and head were attached. Found amid ash and domestic refuse of the 1890s.
by Tom Licence | Mar 30, 2016
Miniature grey ceramic vase, missing the neck and handle.
by Tom Licence | Mar 30, 2016
Knob/ handle from the top of a tureen lid, in the shape of a lion (poorly cast). From ash and domestic refuse of the 1890s.
by Tom Licence | Mar 24, 2016
Doll’s arm, with some damage to the finger tips. Found amid ash and domestic refuse of the 1890s.
