YLM Database – Summaries
Museum of Antiquities
The University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Cambridge University
Downing Street
Cambridge
CB2 3DZ
http://maa.cam.ac.uk/home/index.php
Funded by:
Cambridge University
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 20
Museum of Barnstable and North Devon
The Square
Barnstable
North Devon
EX32 8LN
http://www.devonmuseums.net/component/option,com_mumancontent/task,view/sectionid,7/
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
00 plus graves of possibly the Late AngloSaxon period and the Norman era from the Castle Mound in Barnstaple, three skeletons (or part skeletons) from the seventeenth (?) century, and a few bones from Rapparee Cove (European origin).
Total: 100
Museum of Cornish Life, Helston
Market Place Helston
Cornwall
TR13 8TH
http://museumofcornishlife.co.uk
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Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
Museum of Edinburgh
Archaeological Service
142 Canongate
Royal Mile
Edinburgh
EH8 8DD
Scotland
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Museum of Farnham
Willmer House
38 West Street
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7DX
http://www.waverley.gov.uk/museumoffarnham
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum holds one mummified hand from Memphis, and a skull and small number of bones from a medieval burial.
Total: 2
Museum of London
London Wall
London
EC2Y 5HN
The museum is located on the south west edge of
the Barbican Centre.
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/
Funded by:
MoL is primarily funded by the City Corporation of London and the Greater London Authority. It also receives funding through grants and sponsorships from a variety of other sources. Of particular significance in the context of HAD’s work, is funding from the Wellcome Trust (2003-2007) and the Spitalfields Development Group (2003-2006) that was used to analyse and catalogue the museum’s human remains.
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum currently has approximately 17,000 skeletons. Unlike many other museums in which human remains have been intentionally unearthed and collected, these human remains are primarily the result of disturbance caused by development in the City of London and Greater London areas (‘rescue archaeology’). The research collection includes 20 cremation burials of Bronze Age date and ten times that number of Romano-British cremation burials. Among the Roman inhumations, the museum asserts that they currently have no knowledge as to whether individuals were Christian or not.
Total: 17000
Museum of Oxford
St. Aldates
Oxford
OX1 1DZ
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Museum of the History of Science
Broad Street
Oxford
OX1 3AZ
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Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
1 Lambeth Hight Street
London
SE1 7NJ
http://www.rpsgb.org.uk/informationresources/museum/
Funded by:
The RPSGB, ie. a private organisation
Number of ancestors in collection:
There are six in the collection, the only two that are not Christian being of Egyptian origin.
Total: 6
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