Which artefact in the British Museum was painstakingly restored after being smashed by a drunkard in 1845?
Nigel Williams (conservator) was his 1988–1989 restoration of the Portland Vase. Regarded as "probably the most famous glass object in the world" by the "Journal of Glass Studies", the vase is "a masterpiece of Roman cameo glass." First recorded in 1600–1601, the vase is dated to around 30–20 B.C., or shortly afterward. It was placed on display in the British Museum in 1810, and then intentionally smashed in 1845 by a young man who admitted to "indulging in intemperance for a week before". It was restored the same year by John Doubleday, and then again in 1948–1949 by J. W. R. Axtell. By
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump of the society. In Blackfoot, the name for the site is "Estipah-skikikini-kots". According to legend, a young Blackfoot wanted to watch the buffalo plunge off the cliff from below, but was buried underneath the falling buffalo. He was later found dead under the pile of carcasses, where he had his head smashed in. Head-Smashed-In was abandoned in the 19th century after European contact. The site was first recorded by Europeans in the 1880s, and first excavated by the American Museum of Natural History in 1938. It was designated a National Historic Site in 1968, a Provincial Historic Site in 1979,