The celebration of the arrival of the Seaton Down Hoard at RAMM

New Acquisitions
RAMM continues to add objects and specimens to its permanent collection. RAMM reviews its Collections Development Policy at least every five years. This guides collecting activity and ensures the museum’s collections remain relevant and reflect contemporary society.
RAMM would like to thank all the funders and supporters who make it possible to acquire new objects for the collection.
A selection of RAMM’s acquisitions in 2020:
‘Handle with Care’ – 8/2020 – Exeter-based photographer Brendan Barry worked with a group of young people aged thirteen to seventeen years old to create these photographic prints.
‘Exeter Chromatic’ – 9/2020 – Devon lace teachers and their students made a new piece of lace for the 2020 exhibition ‘By Royal Appointment’.
Three brass finials – 16/2020
‘The interior of Exeter Cathedral’, Thomas Girtin, 1797 – 17/2020
‘Touch-Line’ by Michelle Sank – 18/2020 – A photographic document of rugby culture and ritual in the South West of England in anticipation of the Rugby World Cup games, September 2015
‘Breathe’ by Michelle Sank – 19/2020 – The photographs were taken in March and April 2020 whilst the artist was isolated from her partner and social group during lockdown.
Climate action banner – 20/2020
- 8/2020 Handle With Care: Kim Campbell
- 9/2020 Devon lace teachers and their students made a new piece of lace inspired by an old lace design
- 16/2020 Brass finial
- 17/2020 The Interior of Exeter Cathedral by Thomas Girtin
- 18/2020 Touch-Line: Topsham Ladies Rugby Club team. Post match dressing up
- Michelle Sank, ‘Lacey and Family, Burnthouse Lane, Exeter’
- 20/2020 Climate crisis banner
A selection of RAMM’s acquisitions in 2019:
Vessel for ritual offering (dou) – 1/2019 – a ceremonial offering vessel that was made during the Warring States period of Chinese history. The vessel dates to approximately 453BC to 221BC.
‘The Iron Bridge, Exeter’, David Harris – 3/2019 – acrylic on board, 1998.
‘Looking from Marsh Barton -a view near Exeter’, John Swete – 4/2019 – watercolour on paper, 1796.
‘Gourds and vegetables’, Peter Randall-Page – 6/2019 – charcoal on paper.
‘Chagford’, Walter Sickert -7/2019 – etching on paper
Mask (Chhau) – 11/2019/1 – A performance mask depicting Lord Shiva.
Two fragments from a Bronze Age sword – 24/2019
A Middle Bronze Age hoard – 25/2019 – which consists of palstave, a bracelet fragment and castling jet.
Bronze Age gold sheet – 26/2019
Hoard of seven fragments of Bronze Age copper alloy ingots – 27/2019
Yellow-browed warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) – 29/2019
Two lichen collections – 30 and 32/2019 – specimens collected by Devon lichen recorder Barbara Benfield.
‘French prisoners under escort to Exeter Castle for forfeiting their parole’ by Thomas Rowlandson – 31/2019 – watercolour on paper, 1799.
A Late Bronze Age hoard – 34/2019 – of four gold bracelets, a fragment of bronze sword, two fragments of bronze axe and eleven fragments of bronze ingots.
Clay pipe – 38/2019 – depicts an African slave
Corgi model of De Havilland Mosquito aircraft – 53/2019
Photograph by Brendan Barry – 61/2019
- 1/2019 Vessel for ritual offering (dou)
- 4/2019 ‘Looking from Marsh Barton -a view near Exeter’, John Swete
- 6/2019 ‘Gourds and vegetables’, Peter Randall-Page – 6/2019 – charcoal on paper
- 7/2019 ‘Chagford’, Walter Sickert
- 11/2019 mask depicting Shiva
- 24/2019 sword fragments
- 25/2019 Middle Bronze Age hoard
- 26/2019 fragment of gold sheet
- 27/2019 Hoard of seven fragments of Bronze Age copper alloy ingots
- 29/2019 Yellow-browed warbler
- Lichen collected by Barbara Benfield
- 31/2019 ‘French prisoners under escort to Exeter Castle for forfeiting their parole’ by Thomas Rowlandson watercolour on paper, 1799.
- 34/2019 Four gold bracelets, a fragment of bronze sword, two fragments of bronze axe and eleven fragments of bronze ingots.
- 38/2019 Pipe bowl
- 53/2019 Corgi model of De Havilland Mosquito aircraft
- Photograph of Julien Parsons and his dog Bella by Brendan Barry