Projects
Little Doward and Quarry Wood, Herefordshire
Acquisition of 211 acres of woodland that form a major component of the Upper Wye Gorge in the Wye V
Dumfries Freedom Box
Acquisition of the Dumfries Freedom box, silver and silver gilt, by Alexander Gairdner, Edinburgh, 1
Coughton Court, Portrait of Anne Throckmorton by Largillière
Acquisition of a portrait of Anne Throckmorton, who was an Abbess of the Celestine Convent in Paris
Irish Claymore
Acquisition at auction of an Irish Claymore or 'Claidheamh Mor', a single-handed sword, 15th - 16th
Manuscript of The Mirror of Synners by St Edmund of Abingdon
Acquisition of a manuscript of 'The Mirror of Synners' or Speculum Ecclesiae, by St Edmund of Abingd
Turners Puddle Heath, Dorset
Acquisition of some 36 acres, part of the Turners Puddle Heath SSSI.
Samson and the Philistines, Sculpture by Foggini
Acquisition of marble sculpture which depicts Samson on the point of slaying two terrified Philistin
Fossil Ichthyosaur from Kilve, Somerset
Acquisition of a well-preserved and prepared complete fossil skeleton of a Jurassic ichthyosaur, fou
Coughton Court, Seven Medieval Manuscripts
Acquisition of seven manuscripts that had been in the Throckmorton family since the late 17th centur
Northumberland World Map
Acquisition at auction of what appears to be the earliest known manuscript world chart to be produce