Visit Penlee House & Museum

Penlee House is a gallery, museum, cafe and shop. Situated within Penlee Park, a space to reflect and great for family visits.

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A space for exhibitions & events

Alongside our Exhibition programme we run a variety of community events and workshops. The Newlyn School and Social history galleries change often. Find out what’s on.

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A space to learn

Penlee House is committed to lifelong learning. We run workshops for all age groups and offer a school workshop programme.

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A space for all

Built in 1865, as the home of the Branwell family. Penlee House is home to many paintings by members of the Newlyn School. It is also home to the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society collection.

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You can search and browse our collections online. We also have a section dedicated to the Newlyn School.

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Explore thousands of objects from the Penlee House collections.

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Found 1298 objects in the category Archaeology

Slate disc

A circular slate disc with two centrally perforated holes.

PEZPH : 2005.29.146
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Stone fragment

A black irregular stone fragment with rolled edges.

PEZPH : 2005.29.143
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Stone

Irregular fragment showing black glaze

PEZPH : 2005.29.144
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Irregular stone fragment

An irregular stone fragmentwith no evidence of use.

PEZPH : 2005.29.141
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Rolled end of pebble

A rolled end of a pebble with no evidence of use.

PEZPH : 2005.29.142
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Large rolled pebble

An axe-shaped rolled pebble.

PEZPH : 2005.29.140
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Microlith

A flint microlith.

PEZPH : 2005.29.139
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Flint blade flake

A thick cherty flint blade flake.

PEZPH : 2005.29.14
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Microlith

A flint microlith.

PEZPH : 2005.29.137
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Micro bladelet

A flint micro bladelet.

PEZPH : 2005.29.138
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Micro flint bladelet

A micro flint bladelet.

PEZPH : 2005.29.135
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Micro flint bladelet

A micro flint bladelet with retouch.

PEZPH : 2005.29.136
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Flint blade flake

A flint blade flake.

PEZPH : 2005.29.134
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Flint blade flake

A flint blade flake.

PEZPH : 2005.29.131
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Flint blade flake

A utilised flint blade flake.

PEZPH : 2005.29.132
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Flint blade flake

A flint blade flake with its proximol end broken.

PEZPH : 2005.29.133
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Flint flake

A flint flake.

PEZPH : 2005.29.130
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Glass? blade? chip?

A hollow grey/pinked elongated blade-shaped piece of glass with smoothed surfaces.

PEZPH : 2005.29.128
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