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Established | 1915 |
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Location | Church Street, Ribchester, Lancashire, England |
Coordinates | 53°48′38″N 2°31′57″W / 53.81044°N 2.53254°W |
Founder | Margaret Greenall |
Ribchester Roman Museum (officially the Ribchester Roman Museum of Roman Antiquities) [1] is located in the village of Ribchester, Lancashire, England. It sits at the southern end of Church Street, near the northern banks of the River Ribble, adjacent to St Wilfrid's Church. [2] Founded in 1915 by Margaret Greenall, [3] a member of Warrington's Greenall's brewing family, it is registered charity number 510490 with the UK Charity Commission.
The museum houses many of the finds from Bremetennacum, the Roman fort a few yards away. The most notable find, the Ribchester Helmet, is on show in replica; the original is in the British Museum collection. [4]
The museum's former honorary curator, Jim Ridge, had a gallery at the museum named in his honour after his death in 2003. [5] Ridge instigated a Time Team dig in Ribchester in September 1993 after writing to them regarding remnants of the Roman fort being in the back garden of his 2 Church Street cottage. [6]