FAMILY heirlooms and recent finds were examined by experts at Oxford’s Ashmolean museum.

Archaeological artefacts were brought in by members of the public as part of an open day for Oxfordshire Science Festival. Curators examined a range of items at the event on Wednesday.

Dr Eleanor Standley, assistant keeper of the Medieval Collection, said: “We have had some coins, tokens and counters, one significant one which none of us had seen before from Nuremberg. Other people came in with metal detector finds.

“We helped them to add them to the portable antiquities database, which means that they are now recorded on a database accessible to anybody.”