Bexhill Museum
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We are an independent museum in Bexhill, East Sussex. Our collections include natural history, clothing and transport. Our opening hours are Tuesday to Sunday from 11-4.
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Welcome back to #TrilobiteTuesday!
Here is the cephalon of the "lace collar" trilobite Cryptolithus tessellatus. This comes from the Upper Ordovician Kope Formation (Lower Cincinnatian Series) in Maysville, Kentucky. What you usually find are just pieces scattered throughout the limestones.
Here is the cephalon of the "lace collar" trilobite Cryptolithus tessellatus. This comes from the Upper Ordovician Kope Formation (Lower Cincinnatian Series) in Maysville, Kentucky. What you usually find are just pieces scattered throughout the limestones.
February 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Welcome back to #TrilobiteTuesday!
Here is the cephalon of the "lace collar" trilobite Cryptolithus tessellatus. This comes from the Upper Ordovician Kope Formation (Lower Cincinnatian Series) in Maysville, Kentucky. What you usually find are just pieces scattered throughout the limestones.
Here is the cephalon of the "lace collar" trilobite Cryptolithus tessellatus. This comes from the Upper Ordovician Kope Formation (Lower Cincinnatian Series) in Maysville, Kentucky. What you usually find are just pieces scattered throughout the limestones.
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Spotlight | Greener exhibition design 🌲
Designers share their work to improve the environmental sustainability of exhibitions
Designers share their work to improve the environmental sustainability of exhibitions
Spotlight | Greener exhibition design - Museums Association
Exhibition designers share their work to improve the environmental sustainability of exhibitions
www.museumsassociation.org
February 4, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Spotlight | Greener exhibition design 🌲
Designers share their work to improve the environmental sustainability of exhibitions
Designers share their work to improve the environmental sustainability of exhibitions
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Ship graffiti: Salthouse, St Nicholas, north Norfolk #norfolk #coast #ships #graffiti #materialculture #archaeology #history #heritage
February 3, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Ship graffiti: Salthouse, St Nicholas, north Norfolk #norfolk #coast #ships #graffiti #materialculture #archaeology #history #heritage
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The spotted-tail quoll is an Australian marsupial predator. It uses a powerful bite to dispatch prey including birds and small mammals. Its hisses and screams have been likened to the sounds of a circular saw!
Photo: Catherine Grenfell, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
Photo: Catherine Grenfell, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
February 4, 2026 at 3:03 PM
The spotted-tail quoll is an Australian marsupial predator. It uses a powerful bite to dispatch prey including birds and small mammals. Its hisses and screams have been likened to the sounds of a circular saw!
Photo: Catherine Grenfell, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
Photo: Catherine Grenfell, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
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And the evocative recreation of the main entrance of #Llanmelin hillfort by the brilliant #AlanSorrell. Dated 1940 the painting is owned and curated by @Museum_Cardiff
#HillfortsWednesday #artwork
#History #art (2/2)
#HillfortsWednesday #artwork
#History #art (2/2)
February 4, 2026 at 11:00 AM
And the evocative recreation of the main entrance of #Llanmelin hillfort by the brilliant #AlanSorrell. Dated 1940 the painting is owned and curated by @Museum_Cardiff
#HillfortsWednesday #artwork
#History #art (2/2)
#HillfortsWednesday #artwork
#History #art (2/2)
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"Not Another Unknown Monster -
but just our prehistoric friend the Giant Brontosaurus. He would be alive to-day had be been able to adapt himself to new conditions. But nothing can live and stand still."
Bexhill Observer 28.4.1934. #WyrdWednesday #Bexhill #Sussex #Dinosaur #Advert #History #1930s
but just our prehistoric friend the Giant Brontosaurus. He would be alive to-day had be been able to adapt himself to new conditions. But nothing can live and stand still."
Bexhill Observer 28.4.1934. #WyrdWednesday #Bexhill #Sussex #Dinosaur #Advert #History #1930s
February 4, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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I've just realised that this is another dinosaur illustration showing them with hair, not dissimilar to current illustrations of them with rudimentary feathers.
February 4, 2026 at 2:11 PM
I've just realised that this is another dinosaur illustration showing them with hair, not dissimilar to current illustrations of them with rudimentary feathers.
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Lawson Wood seemed to specialise in (not very funny) cartoons of prehistoric life. Here he is illustrating a story in a 1922 edition of The Strand, which borrowed the 'Aepyornis Island' theme. (A second illustration in the following reply bit).
#WyrdWednesday #dinosaur-grrrr!
#WyrdWednesday #dinosaur-grrrr!
February 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Lawson Wood seemed to specialise in (not very funny) cartoons of prehistoric life. Here he is illustrating a story in a 1922 edition of The Strand, which borrowed the 'Aepyornis Island' theme. (A second illustration in the following reply bit).
#WyrdWednesday #dinosaur-grrrr!
#WyrdWednesday #dinosaur-grrrr!
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""The Monster of 'Partridge Creek.'"
In this is related the story of an encounter which the author and several friends had with no less a creature than the dinosaurs of the Arctic Circle...still at large in the frozen wastes of Alaska."
#Bexhill Observer 4.7.1908. #WyrdWednesday #Dinosaur #1900s
In this is related the story of an encounter which the author and several friends had with no less a creature than the dinosaurs of the Arctic Circle...still at large in the frozen wastes of Alaska."
#Bexhill Observer 4.7.1908. #WyrdWednesday #Dinosaur #1900s
February 4, 2026 at 10:49 AM
""The Monster of 'Partridge Creek.'"
In this is related the story of an encounter which the author and several friends had with no less a creature than the dinosaurs of the Arctic Circle...still at large in the frozen wastes of Alaska."
#Bexhill Observer 4.7.1908. #WyrdWednesday #Dinosaur #1900s
In this is related the story of an encounter which the author and several friends had with no less a creature than the dinosaurs of the Arctic Circle...still at large in the frozen wastes of Alaska."
#Bexhill Observer 4.7.1908. #WyrdWednesday #Dinosaur #1900s
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Ooooh! Very pointy!
February 4, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Ooooh! Very pointy!
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Just your standard 3000 year old Chinese wine container.
(Seen at Art Institute of Chicago)
(Seen at Art Institute of Chicago)
February 4, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Just your standard 3000 year old Chinese wine container.
(Seen at Art Institute of Chicago)
(Seen at Art Institute of Chicago)
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This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source
Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:26 PM
This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🔎 In this week's post from The Detective's Notebook on Substack (for all subs) there is a sneak peek into the exhibition on Scotland Yard's Crime Museum currently at the Metropolitan Police Museum, featuring some of the cases behind the exhibits 🔗 drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/murder-at-...
Murder at the Met
150 years of Scotland Yard’s Crime Museum
drangelabuckley.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:20 AM
🔎 In this week's post from The Detective's Notebook on Substack (for all subs) there is a sneak peek into the exhibition on Scotland Yard's Crime Museum currently at the Metropolitan Police Museum, featuring some of the cases behind the exhibits 🔗 drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/murder-at-...
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Sunbeam #Japan 4.2.1877. "It was blowing hard all day, raining, snowing & sleeting. The scenery appeared to be pretty, & we passed through crowds of picturesque junks.
At 4.24 we rounded Tomamgai Smia, & at 9pm anchored off the town of Kobe, or Hiogo."
#Brassey #Victorian #Travel #History #1870s
At 4.24 we rounded Tomamgai Smia, & at 9pm anchored off the town of Kobe, or Hiogo."
#Brassey #Victorian #Travel #History #1870s
February 4, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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Just noticed that Quin Hall's incredibly hideous hairy dinosaur in Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1918 novel The Land that Time Forgot (right) is based on the incredibly hideous hairy dinosaur from Lawson Wood's c. 1907 artbook Prehistoric Proverbs (left). And here I assumed Hall was just winging it.
February 4, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Just noticed that Quin Hall's incredibly hideous hairy dinosaur in Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1918 novel The Land that Time Forgot (right) is based on the incredibly hideous hairy dinosaur from Lawson Wood's c. 1907 artbook Prehistoric Proverbs (left). And here I assumed Hall was just winging it.
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"Prehistoric Bexhill.
As seen by the magical eyes of the famous artist Mr Lawson Wood.
"Come Out You Coward."
An incident of common occurrence in the "Breezy Bexhill" of Prehistoric Days."
Bexhill Chronicle, Christmas 1912. #WyrdWednesday #Bexhill #Sussex #Prehistory #Art #History #1910s #LawsonWood
As seen by the magical eyes of the famous artist Mr Lawson Wood.
"Come Out You Coward."
An incident of common occurrence in the "Breezy Bexhill" of Prehistoric Days."
Bexhill Chronicle, Christmas 1912. #WyrdWednesday #Bexhill #Sussex #Prehistory #Art #History #1910s #LawsonWood
February 4, 2026 at 9:44 AM
"Prehistoric Bexhill.
As seen by the magical eyes of the famous artist Mr Lawson Wood.
"Come Out You Coward."
An incident of common occurrence in the "Breezy Bexhill" of Prehistoric Days."
Bexhill Chronicle, Christmas 1912. #WyrdWednesday #Bexhill #Sussex #Prehistory #Art #History #1910s #LawsonWood
As seen by the magical eyes of the famous artist Mr Lawson Wood.
"Come Out You Coward."
An incident of common occurrence in the "Breezy Bexhill" of Prehistoric Days."
Bexhill Chronicle, Christmas 1912. #WyrdWednesday #Bexhill #Sussex #Prehistory #Art #History #1910s #LawsonWood
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Of dead destruction, ruin within ruin!
The wrecks beside of many a city vast,
Whose population which the earth grew over
Was mortal, but not human; see, they lie,
Their monstrous works, and uncouth skeletons …
– P. B. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound 1819
#WyrdWednesday #booksky
The wrecks beside of many a city vast,
Whose population which the earth grew over
Was mortal, but not human; see, they lie,
Their monstrous works, and uncouth skeletons …
– P. B. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound 1819
#WyrdWednesday #booksky
February 4, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Of dead destruction, ruin within ruin!
The wrecks beside of many a city vast,
Whose population which the earth grew over
Was mortal, but not human; see, they lie,
Their monstrous works, and uncouth skeletons …
– P. B. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound 1819
#WyrdWednesday #booksky
The wrecks beside of many a city vast,
Whose population which the earth grew over
Was mortal, but not human; see, they lie,
Their monstrous works, and uncouth skeletons …
– P. B. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound 1819
#WyrdWednesday #booksky
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"These prehistoric pictures...associate with the name Mr Wood, form a not inconsiderable portion of the exhibition. In most cases the nightmare objects, which the artist would have us believe infested the earth during the "Stone Age"...
Bexhill Observer 15.7.1911. #WyrdWednesday #LawsonWood #Art
Bexhill Observer 15.7.1911. #WyrdWednesday #LawsonWood #Art
February 4, 2026 at 9:15 AM
"These prehistoric pictures...associate with the name Mr Wood, form a not inconsiderable portion of the exhibition. In most cases the nightmare objects, which the artist would have us believe infested the earth during the "Stone Age"...
Bexhill Observer 15.7.1911. #WyrdWednesday #LawsonWood #Art
Bexhill Observer 15.7.1911. #WyrdWednesday #LawsonWood #Art
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“A Sawrian”, by John Scott, 1936. Gideon Mantell on a mantelpiece!!
February 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM
“A Sawrian”, by John Scott, 1936. Gideon Mantell on a mantelpiece!!
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This view of the alignments at Menec in Carnac (Morbihan) looking north-westwards, with a family of 7 in the foreground, was issued by the widow Ecomard in Quiberon c.1905.
February 4, 2026 at 8:41 AM
This view of the alignments at Menec in Carnac (Morbihan) looking north-westwards, with a family of 7 in the foreground, was issued by the widow Ecomard in Quiberon c.1905.
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Following the circuit of Flowers Barrow Iron Age hillfort in Dorset is not recommended as there's occasional unexploded ordnance hereabouts 😱
📷 Feb 2022
It's vital that visitors check when it's not being shelled from Lulworth MoD Artillery Range:
www.gov.uk/government/p...
#HillfortsWednesday
📷 Feb 2022
It's vital that visitors check when it's not being shelled from Lulworth MoD Artillery Range:
www.gov.uk/government/p...
#HillfortsWednesday
February 4, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Following the circuit of Flowers Barrow Iron Age hillfort in Dorset is not recommended as there's occasional unexploded ordnance hereabouts 😱
📷 Feb 2022
It's vital that visitors check when it's not being shelled from Lulworth MoD Artillery Range:
www.gov.uk/government/p...
#HillfortsWednesday
📷 Feb 2022
It's vital that visitors check when it's not being shelled from Lulworth MoD Artillery Range:
www.gov.uk/government/p...
#HillfortsWednesday
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Born on this day in 1790: Gideon Mantell!
Here, the Crystal Palace Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus gaze upon their most famous fossil specimens, and ponder what might have been - if the quarrymen had just placed the gunpowder a little bit to the left in each instance..
Here, the Crystal Palace Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus gaze upon their most famous fossil specimens, and ponder what might have been - if the quarrymen had just placed the gunpowder a little bit to the left in each instance..
February 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Born on this day in 1790: Gideon Mantell!
Here, the Crystal Palace Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus gaze upon their most famous fossil specimens, and ponder what might have been - if the quarrymen had just placed the gunpowder a little bit to the left in each instance..
Here, the Crystal Palace Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus gaze upon their most famous fossil specimens, and ponder what might have been - if the quarrymen had just placed the gunpowder a little bit to the left in each instance..