How the Childe Collection is used and some examples from it.

Professor Edgar Peltenburg, the collection's
custodian, teaching with items from the collection

Archaeology Students learn from items from the collection

VGC 1772 Red Polished bowl, Cyprus, Early Bronze age, c. 2100 BC

VGC 1780 Terracotta horserider,
Cyprus, Cypro-Archaic I c. 750 BC

Handaxe from St. Acheul from Sir C. Lyell
 

VGC 3826 Two handled pot,
Hungarian Bronze age

VGC 4771 Italian Iron Age fibula, Florence

VGC 4772 Italian leech brooch, Vian Flaminia

  
K7 Egyptian shabti, 18th Dynasty

Thanks to the generosity of The Pilgrim Trust and The Edinburgh University Alumni Small Project Fund, the collection is now accessible online at Archaeology and we have carried out necessary conservation of fragile objects.