Just as RAMM borrows objects from other museums, RAMM also lends the collections in its care to museums around the world. Sometimes this is for an exhibition, other times it is for research.
This blog post highlights just a few of the objects that RAMM has sent out on loan over the past two years.
In March, the team from The University of Exeter’s Digital Humanities Lab digitised objects from the Leopold Montague collection of of antiquities from Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Near East.
An enquiry from an MA researcher ends up shedding new light on a little-known object – an oinochoe
After securing the Seaton Down Hoard for the people of Devon and Exeter RAMM staff are now working on making the 23,000 coins accessible for research and interpretation by specialists and the public.
Assessment of the skeletal remains held by RAMM by Skeletal Assessment Report by Claire Hodson, PhD candidate, University of Durham
![crumpled piece of brown paper with writing in brown ink. The writing reads, 'Pottery: old rubbish high on [?] of Camp at top of Hight Peak Hill, mile and a half west of Sidmouth, on the coast. All described in Vol I of my MMS Hist of Sidmouth [text hard to read] POH](https://rammcollections.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/High-peak-pottery-wrapper-300x199.jpg)
Research by Maria Duggan for her PhD project on Late Roman and early medieval pottery imported to sites of post-Roman date in Britain, Ireland and on the Atlantic seaboard.
Guest blog from Dr Jon Taylor, Assistant Keeper, Cuneiform collections, British Museum: The RAMM collection of cuneiform tablets is a small but varied and interesting group of inscriptions from ancient Iraq.
Dr Aidan Dodson is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. He reports his research on Ancient Egyptian mummy cases in RAMM’s collection.
Roman, Mediaeval and Post-Mediaeval Metalworking Debris at RAMM: A Specialist Assessment
PhD student Vicky Donnellan Researches the role of collections of classical archaeology in UK regional museums.