YLM Database – Summaries
Royal Cornwall Museum
River Street
Truro
Cornwall
TR1 2SJ
http://www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk/
Funded by:
Royal Institution of Cornwall (charitable trust) grant aided by DCMS and Cornwall County Council
Number of ancestors in collection:
c. 55 documentation records of human remains of Pagan origin c. 55 records from Cornish preChristian contexts
Total: 55
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
Little Elborow Street
Rugby
CV21 3BZ
Funded by:
Local authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
Skeletal remains all from nearby Roman settlement Tripontium. Including cremated bone from four Middle Bronze Age cremation burials.
Total:
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum
East Cliff
Bournmouth
Dorset
BH1 3AA
http://russell-cotes.bournemouth.gov.uk/
Funded by:
Charitable Trust
Number of ancestors in collection:
There are around 8 human remains in the museum. These include a complete Egyptian mummy, six ethnographic items using part of human remains, and one Christian skull. There are none of ancient British or British pagan provenance.
Total: 8
Rustington Museum – Samuel Wickens Centre
Broadmark Lane Car Park
Broadmark Lane
Rustington
West Sussex
BN16 2NW
http://www.rustingtonmuseum.org/
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
Rutland County Museum
Catmose Street
Oakham
Rutland
LE15 6HW
http://www.rutlandcountymuseum.org.uk
Funded by:
Rutland County Council District Council
Number of ancestors in collection:
Estimate 249 predominantly Anglo-Saxon and Roman – all from Rutland but specifically Great Casterton, Empingham, Thistleton, Oakham, Ketton, North Luffenham, Greetham, Seaton.
Total: 249
Rye Castle Museum
3 East Street
Rye
TN31 7JY
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
Saffron Walden Museum
Museum Street
Saffron Walden
Essex
CB10 1BN
http://www.saffronwaldenmuseum.org/
Funded by:
Uttlesford District Council
Number of ancestors in collection:
295 burials, of which 281 are Christian. Of the ancient British and pre-Christian, there are 14 burials, representing at least 21 individuals. In many cases remains are fragmentary, and sometimes more than one is present. One is a Bronze Age, the rest being Late Iron Age or Roman.
Total: 295
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
University of East Anglia
Norwich
Norfolk
NR4 7TJ
Funded by:
University of East Anglia
Number of ancestors in collection:
2 human remains. Dagger, Melanesia, New Guinea, Sepik River: Washkuk 19-20th Century (uea 169). Carved bone, Southern Mesoamerica, Maya, Late Classic period (AD300-900) (uea 710).
Total: 2
Saint Augustine’s Abbey
Kent – CT1 1PF
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/st-augustines-abbey/
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total:
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
The King’s House
65 The Close
Salisbury
SP1 2EN
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total:
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