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Objects

Worn, torn, crafted, mended, stored, owned, suffered, hidden, traded, gambled, and adapted by convicts – these convict-era objects and archaeological artefacts found at Hyde Park Barracks and The Mint (Rum Hospital) are among the rarest and most personal artefacts to have survived from Australia’s early convict period.

  • Absolute Pardon
  • Image of a convict pardon. It has a red wax stamp in the lower left corner.
    Absolute Pardon
  • Green glass bottle
    Alcohol bottle
  • Composite image of a ball and chain
    Ball and chain
  • Barracks rat
  • Bible & prayer book
  • Branding iron
  • Brass dumbell shaped stamp.
    Brass stamp
  • One side of a carved penny
    Cartwheel penny
  • Cat-o’-nine-tails
  • Cat-o’-nine-tails
  • Certificate of Freedom
  • Clay tobacco pipe
  • Composite image of a clay pipe with a broken bowl, viewed from both sides
    Clay tobacco pipe
  • Clay tobacco pipes, repaired
  • Clock-winding crank
  • Convict braces & belts
  • Convict cap
  • Convict coins
  • Convict gaming tokens
  • Convict hat sennets & leaf shredder
  • Convict shirt on a form
    Convict shirt
  • Convict shirt scrap, ‘B.A.’
  • Scraps of fabric arranged in a grid
    Convict shirt scraps
  • Convict shoe
  • grid of an assortment of buttons of different sizes and colours
    Convict uniform buttons
  • Composite image of a cauldron. One view from the front the other above.
    Cooking cauldron
  • Glass jars and gold coloured object in front of a steel chest
    Cupping glasses & scarificator
  • Wood and brass pistol.
    Danks pistol
  • Broken crockery fragments
    Earthenware vessel
  • Paper handwritten document with signature and stamp.
    Free pardon
  • Ginger beer bottle - brown colour with the word 'Foster' embossed into it
    Ginger beer bottles
  • Government blanket fragments
  • composite image showing 2 different images of a cart
    Hack barrow
  • Hammock scrap
  • Thumbnail of an image of chain worn by a gang
    Iron gang chain
  • Metal object with shirt scrap.
    Jew’s harp
  • Leg iron guard
  • Leg irons on a clear background
    Leg irons, bar link
  • Leg irons, heavy
  • Image of an oval leg iron
    Leg irons, ovalled
  • leg irons standard open basil ring
    Leg irons, standard
  • pear shaped top leg irons
    Leg irons, top
  • Stacked images of convict love token, front and back.
    Love token, Daws
  • Love token, Smith
  • Coin with words 'John Hancock...' inscribed into it
    Love token, Woodcock
  • Composite image showing two views of a rake
    Rake head
  •  selection of broken bottle fragments
    Rum Hospital glassware
  • Sampler
  • Sandstock bricks
  • Ticket of Leave
  • Home
  • Convict Sydney
  • Objects

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