There is a second Museum exhibit on The Prospect: Two field guns over by the smaller of the two gates.
The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England, both as a result of the huge impact the loss of three quarters of a million British lives had on communities and the official policy of not repatriating the dead, which meant that the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss.
One such memorial was raised here in 1921. The Ross District War Memorial was built by Alfred William Ursell, a mason, at a cost of £400 and it commemorates 105 local servicemen who fell in the First World War.
The memorial originally had two German field guns sited with it which were removed in the 1930s.
Following the Second World War 44 names were added with a further name being added following the Falklands Conflict.
In 2008 it was discovered that the war memorial had been erected on top of a Roman settlement and so the memorial was dismantled and stored to allow archaeological investigations to take place. The memorial was subsequently repositioned approximately 50m from its original location and was rededicated.
