Over 800 coins, dating from the 3rd century BC to the 19th century and including 138 Roman
coins, were donated to the Ashmolean Museum in 1936.
William Evetts also donated groups of worked flints to the Pitt Rivers Museum on several
occasions in the early 20th century, but the bulk of the flint collection – over a thousand
items – went to his relatives after Julian’s death.
They are now on loan to the History Group and have been identified, recorded and photographed
by Alison Roberts, curator of European and Early Prehistory collections at the Ashmolean and
Anni Byard, local Finds Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
Alison Roberts and Anni Byard working in Tackley Village Hall in 2010
The majority of the flint tools are from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, but there are
significant numbers from the Mesolithic and a few from the Late Upper Paleolithic. The
collection documents the history of human activity in the village between the ending of the last
Ice Age around 14,000 years ago and the development of settled agriculture and the end of the
Bronze Age around 3,000 years ago.
The collection of leaf-shaped (top) and barbed and tanged arrowheads (bottom)