YLM Database – Full Listing

Sandwich Guildhall Museum and Archives

The Guildhall
Cattle Market
Sandwich
CT13 9AH

http://www.sandwichguildhallmuseum.co.uk

Funded by:

Charity and Local Authority (for staff and in-kind support)

Number of ancestors in collection:

1 that we know of.

They are not on display. I don’t think there is an aversion to it generally if there is a strong interpretive or narrative reason for it but there isn’t currently in our case.

Total: 1


School of Life and Environmental Sciences

University of Nottingham
King’s Meadow Campus
Lenton Lane
Nottingham
NG7 2NR

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Science Museum

Exhibition Road
London
SW7 2DD

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/about_the_museum/collections/human_remains.aspx

Funded by:

DCMS

Number of ancestors in collection:

The Science Museum cares for 4,351 human remains from many different countries and historical periods. They include skeletal material, mummies, artefacts incorporating remains and slides containing human tissues. The largest group of human remains is 2,816 sets of gallstones, some of which are now on display in Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries.

1,029 of the human remains in our care are part of Sir Henry Wellcome’s Museum Collection, which has been on loan to us from Wellcome since the late 1970s. We manage these remains in conjunction with Wellcome Collection (including its museum and library) and its corresponding Care of Human Remains Policy.

Total: 4351


Sevenoaks Museum

Sevenoaks Museum TN13 1LQ
Libraries, Registration & Archives
Kent County Council

http://kent.gov.uk/libraries

Funded by:

Kent County Council

Number of ancestors in collection:

Small box of about 50 individual bones, ‘Saxon bones, pre. Roman’

Total: 1


Sheffield Museums Trust

2nd Floor
Orchard House
Leopold Street
Sheffield
S1 2GY

http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/

Funded by:

We are a Museum Trust who manage the collections ‘owned’ by Sheffield City Council. We receive funding from SCC as our local authority but also (currently) from MLA as a Lead Hub museum in South Yorkshire. We are also a RFO of the Arts Council. Other funding is raised by grant applications etc.

Number of ancestors in collection:

We have 170 database entries containing human remains of some kind. Some comprise multiple individuals (at least 5 extra taking the figure to 175). Not all though have been clearly identified as human remains, some are suspected. Note this does not include the mummified remains; possibly they are not listed under human remains but under mummified remains which is why they didn’t show up in the search. Of these, 11 are identified as post-Christian, 63 have no dating information listed, although are primarily from pre-Christian sites (although reuse as burial/cremation sites into the post-medieval period is not unknown at such sites). Therefore we could probably say around 95% are likely to be pre-Christian? 2 are identified as non-British 12 have no site information listed.

Total: 175


Shrewsbury Castle

Shropshire

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Shropshire Museums Service

Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
The Music Hall
The Square
Shrewsbury
SY1 1LH

http://www.shrewsburymuseum.org.uk

Funded by:

Local Authority – Shropshire Council

Number of ancestors in collection:

The museum holds a small collection of human remains which mainly relate to Archaeology Project Archives. The exact number is uncertain (a full audit of collections is currently underway) but would be estimated at less than 50 individuals. Of these, the majority are Roman and Prehistoric cremations from excavations carried out between 1950 and 1990. Others are chance finds which were donated to the museums in their early years (19th to mid-20th centuries).
Total: approx. 50

Total: 50


Sir John Soane’s Museum

13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London
WC2A 3BP

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Sittingbourne Heritage Museum

67 East Street, Town Centre, Sittingbourne, GB ME10 4BQ

https://www.sittingbourne-museum.co.uk

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Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0


Snodland Millennium Museum

Waghorn Road
Snodland
Kent
ME6 5BQ

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Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0