Archaeology
The youngest of Major Powell-Cotton's daughters, Antoinette (1913-1997), spent many years studying archaeological sites in the Thanet area surrounding Quex, particularly the Bronze-Age site on the foreshore at Minnis Bay. Gallery 7 displays material she excavated as well as other local finds such as a group of Bronze Age palstaves found on the site of Birchington Primary School and the 'Tin Money' found at Quex in 1853. The collection covers a time span from the Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) through the Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Medieval periods. A particularly fine grave assemblage from the Anglo-Saxon period, excavated at Ozengell near Ramsgate, includes a gold and garnet brooch and a rare glass claw beaker indicating a person of significant social rank.
