Yearly Archives: 2024

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A largely complete silver gilded double sided crucifix pendant

Crucifix Pendant Appeal

Museum is seeking to raise £600 to acquire a largely complete silver gilded double sided crucifix pendant dating to the medieval period (c.AD 1400-1550) that was discovered in nearby Hurleston. We plan to display this piece, of which we currently have no other example, alongside other locally discovered finds. The […]

The Reverend Dr Mark Hart blesses the brine as Nantwich Town Crier looks on

Our celebration of traditional salt-making

    Nantwich Museum has celebrated the town’s salt-making history by making salt in the Square by the traditional method of evaporating brine. Visitors were able to view the boiling of local brine similar to that taken from Nantwich’s Old Biot salt spring, which for centuries supplied the brine upon […]