YLM Database – Summaries
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
Jordan Well
Coventry
West Midlands
CV1 5QP
Funded by:
Local Authority and Charitable Trust
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum holds 41 human remains from burials exhumed at the monastic charterhouse in Coventry; they are all therefore medieval and Christian.
Total: 41
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery
Broad Street
Hereford
HR4 9AU
http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/leisure/museums_galleries/2869.asp
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum holds a minimum number of 40 individuals – but many fragments from mixed graves. it is unknown which are Christian and which pagan from Romano-British times onwards. Parts of the region remained Christain, linked to Welsh/Irish Celtic Church. The estimate is 5-25. 17 are from Romano-British hillforts and settlements.
Total: 40
Hertford Museum
18 Bull Plain
Hertford
Hertfordshire
SG14 1DT
http://www.hertfordmuseum.org/
Funded by:
Museum Trust
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum does hold human remains in its collection, but the exact number has not yet been determined. All are preChristian.
Total:
Hinckley and District Museum
30 Lower Bond Street
Hinckley
Leicestershire
LE10 1QU
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
Horniman Museum and Gardens
London Road
Forest Hill
London
SE23 3PQ
Funded by:
Department of Culture, Media & Sport
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum holds over 100 items which are, or include human remains. 29 of these are from the UK and none of these have clear provenance, date or associated information.
Total: 100
Horsham Museum & art Gallery
Causeway House
9 Causeway
Horsham
West Sussex
RH12 1HE
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
1 part of late Neolithic skull, two Roman cinery urns with human bone fragments.
Total: 3
House of Manannan
Manx National Heritage, Eiraght Ashoonagh Vannin
Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 3LY
http://www.manxnationalheritage.im/
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
Housesteads Roman Fort
Northumberland – NE47 6NN
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/housesteads-roman-fort-hadrians-wall/
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total:
Hull & East Riding Museum
c/o Ferens Art Gallery
Queen Victoria Square
Hull
HU1 3RA
Funded by:
Local authority – Hull City Council. (The Hull and East Riding Museum is one of eight museums which make up Hull Museums.)
Number of ancestors in collection:
About 1000 (a major programme of documentation is still underway), including fragmentary remains and part skeletons. All, except two Egyptian mummies, are from British contexts, with an estimated 80% being pre-Christian. Some burials (e.g. from Romano-British or early Medieval sites) cannot be firmly attributed to ‘pagan’ or Christian religions.
Total: 1000
Ilfracombe Museum
Wilder Road
Ilfracombe
North Devon
EX34 8AF
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
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