These ancient adzes were found near the Thames at Battersea Power Station. They're thought to have been used in log boat building.

Mesolithic adzes

A large stone pebble used to knapp and fashion flint into working tools. Late neolithic. From a burial excavated at Stone Castle, Kent.

Hammer stone

The obverse of a copper alloy coin showing a stylised head. It was produced in about 70-50BC and is associated with the Cantii tribe.

Potin: Iron age coin from Kent

This tableware hoard of copper alloy and pewter objects was found in a well in Londinium, probably hidden in a crisis for later retrieval.

Copper alloy tablewares

Gold and variscite necklace, 3rd Century found in association with a Roman mausoleum near Gillingham, Kent.

Necklace fragment

I showed this photograph to a horticulturalist from Boston, Lincolnshire. This type of tool has changed little to this day. A design classic

Horticultural rake

Anglo Saxon brooch

Anglo-Saxon pottery

Anglo-Saxon glass beads

Bowling ball found at the site of the Tudor palace in Brandon House, Southwark, London.

Tudor bowling cheese from Brandon House

This lead bulla was part of the seal of the scroll or bull, issued by pope Innocent III who nullified the Magna Carta in 1215

Papal bulla of Innocent III, from Borough High Street.

This was an architectural feature once adorning the Tudor palace, Brandon House.

Terracotta lion from Brandon House