Collection: Chatteris Museum

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Local and Social History

  The social history collections are wide ranging and include craft and trade tools, agricultural implements, domestic equipment, toys and games, costume, militaria and items that illustrate aspects of Fenland life, such as eel ‘glaiving’ (spearing), wildfowling with decoys and the netting of small birds. Of particular interest is the set of travelling stocks, made in 1774, once used on Market Hill, Chatteris and some 4 metre long bamboo poles used to collect money from upstairs windows during the annual ‘Hospital Sunday’ parades during the 19th century.; Small geological collection of variable quality, mainly local.; The archaeological collections span pre-history to post-medieval material, much of it acquired as a result of field walking. The Roman material is of particular interest. There is some carved stonework from the former Abbey of St Mary.; Photographs of people, places and events in the town of Chatteris and in the immediate area.; The collections include some books and documents from the local area.; There is an interesting collection of local Fen drainage tools, interpreting the history of land reclamation in the area, together with other local agricultural tools.

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC