There are a variety of items found at Viewbank that evoke a sense of the lives lead by children in the Martin household. A number of ceramic dolls limbs were found at Viewbank. These doll limbs come from cloth bodies so obviously the cloth bodies have degraded in the soil where they’ve been buried for many years. The dolls represent children’s play but they were also part of teaching girls how to mother and many of the toys of childhood were associated with learning the skills of adult life particularly for girls.

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Click Here to listen to conservator Susanna Collis talk about the dominos found at Viewbank.

Click Here to listen to archaeologist Dr Sarah Hayes talk about the mysterious fish token found at Viewbank.