YLM Database – Summaries
Pitt Rivers Museum
South Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PP
Funded by:
A mixture of university, national heritage, and education funding; it is one of the university museums at Oxford.
Number of ancestors in collection:
A basic search of the museum’s online database calls up 310 records containing human remains. Of these 108 are from the UK. At least 69 entries appear to be of ancient British or pre-Christian provenance, however, 60 of those entries has been de-accessioned to other museums, notably the Ashmolean and the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. There are very few non-artefactual human remains with most being casts, charms etc. All are listed in the museum’s online database.
Total: 310
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
Drake Circus
Plymouth
PL4 8AJ
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total:
Poole Museum
4 High Street
Poole
Dorset
BH15 1BW
http://www.boroughofpoole.com/go.php?structureID=U464057c6c52db&ref=S464C240E75E72
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
One Egyptian mummy and several Bronze Age urns containing cremated remains.
Total: 3
Portsmouth City Museums & Records Service
City Museum & Records Office
Museum Road
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO1 2LJ
http://www.portsmouthmuseums.co.uk/
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
There are approximately 160 remains of individuals within the museum collection. It is impossible to state exactly how many of these individuals were pagans, as many of the remains date from the transitional Saxon period and there is no archaeological evidence to suggest a clearly defined religion.
Total: 160
Priest’s House Museum
23-27 High Street
Wimborne Minster
Dorset
BH21 1HR
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
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Radstock Museum
Waterloo Road
Radstock
BA3 3EP
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
None
Total: 0
Reading Museum
The Town Hall
Blagrave Street
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 1QH
http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum is in the process of documenting their human remains in detail. When this has been completed they will be in a position to assess the number of individuals represented. This is unlikely to exceed 250.
Total: 250
Red House Museum
Red House
Oxford Road
Gomersal
BD19 4JP
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
Redbridge Museum
Redbridge Central Library, Clements Road, Ilford, Essex IG1 1EA
http://www.visionrcl.org.uk/museum
Funded by:
Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure
Number of ancestors in collection:
A small number of medieval human remains from Ilford Hospital Chapel.
Redbridge Museum hopes to display a small number of these remains in a new permanent redisplay of the Museum in 2021 in order to explore the history of the Ilford Hospital Chapel as a medieval leper hospice
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Ribchester Museum of Roman Antiquities
Riverside
Ribchester
Preston
Lancashire
PR3 3XS
http://www.ribchesterromanmuseum.org/
Funded by:
Registered Charity funded by admissions
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum holds just a small assemblage of cremated bone fragments, possibly from one individual.
Total: 1
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