Sir John Evans's Artefact Collection
 Handaxe from St. Acheul, France |
The artefact collection comprises more than 12,000 objects ranging from Palaeolithic hand-axes through Merovingian to post-medieval ornaments, and includes material from various parts of the world. Look at two of the Ashmolean Museum's 'treasures' from the Anglo-Saxon collections - the Tostock buckle and the Ixworth Cross. Objects from Evans collection are easy to recognize by their blue-bordered labels neatly inscribed with details of their collecting history. A searchable database containing basic information on all the objects in the John Evans collection is available to search online at (view sample page). John Evans Highlights Database A detailed and searchable database containing information and images on approximately 100 objects from the John Evans collection is available to browse or search online. |
 Whetstone from Nydam (showing clearly the distinctive blue-bordered Evans label) |
