Displays shed light on village’s past
Eunice Johnson at the History Society Exhibition in the Brixworth Library. (Picture: Andrew Carpenter/001396-27)
ROMAN artefacts are on display at Brixworth Library thanks to the village’s history society.
The items were found to the north of the village’s historic Anglo-Saxon All Saints Church during a five-year excavation between 1965 and 1970.
They have been put on display by Brixworth History Society along with an exhibition about the church, which dates to 680AD and is the largest surviving Anglo-Saxon building in this country.
The collection includes examples of everyday items used by Romans, including coins and pots.
The exhibition, which is upstairs at the Spratton Road library, opened last month and will continue until at least the end of February.
Eunice Johnson, of the society, said: “It’s only a very small part of a huge collection of artefacts which were discovered.
“We tend to have a display on the library in january. It’s quite a good promotion for the library and it gives the villagers a chance to see what we’ve got in the archives.”
Brixworth History Society meets every third Thursday of the month in the village hall at 7.45pm and always welcomes new visitors.
For more information visit http://brixworthhistory.org.
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