YLM Database – Summaries
Tom Brown’s School Museum
Broad Street
Uffington
Oxfordshire
SN7 7RA
https://www.uffingtonmuseum.co.uk
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
We do have a skull but it’s on loan from the Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock
Total: 1
Torquay Museum
529 Babbacombe Road
Torquay
Devon
TQ1 1HG
Funded by:
Local Authority, Admission Fees, Grants and Independent Sources
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum holds approximately 335 human remains in archaeology and ethnographic collections. 94 of these belong to late Roman Christian era burial. The remainder are a mixture of Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic (some cremated), Bronze Age, Romano-Brtish and possibly medieval. 7 are Ancient Egyptian. There are still remains being documented.
Total: 335
Torre Abbey Historic House and Gallery
Torre Abbey
The King’s Drive
Torquay
Devon
TQ2 5JE
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
There are two boxes of human remains (bones).
Total: 2
Totnes Elizabethan Museum
70 Fore Street
Totnes
Devon
TQ9 5RU
http://www.devonmuseums.net/23/217/museum.html
Funded by:
Charitable Trust
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum has one incomplete collection of human remains from one young individual. The date of burial was 2nd century CE.
Total: 1
Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museums
Towneley Holmes Road
off Todmorden Road
Burnley
Lancashire
BB11 3RQ
Funded by:
Local authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
Unknown as fragment of bones (Bronze Age UK) skeletal skulls (South America) one Peruvian mummy, one Egyptian mummy
Total:
Trowbridge Museum
The Shires
Court Street
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
BA14 8AT
http://trowbridgemuseum.co.uk/
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum currently holds no human remains. Two tranches of Christian skeletal remains were reburied in non-denominational services some years ago.
Total: 0
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
Castle Street
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA3 8TP
Funded by:
Local Authority, NPO
Number of ancestors in collection:
There are Human Remains in the collection from the Bronze Age to the Medieval. The pre-professional excavated material is largely catalogued. There are excavated sites which form the majority of the backlog of the archaeology collection and these include Human Remains which are largely undocumented.
Total:
Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums (Headquarters)
Discovery Museum
Blandford Square
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 4JA
Funded by:
Local authority, university and other
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 133
UCL Museums and Collections
University College London
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/downloads/humanremains04.pdf
Funded by:
University funded
Number of ancestors in collection:
Approximately nearly 7000 human remains are held across UCL. In 2004, a scoping survey of pre-1948 human remains in UCL Museums and Collections was carried out. In this survey, objects that included human material were included in the audit. [Fossils and sub-fossils of humans were not included.] The survey covered departments across UCL, including Anatomy, Biological Anthropology, the Eastman Dental Institute, Ethnography, Grant Museum, Galton Collection, Histopathology, Institute of Archaeology, Petrie Museum and the Records Office. This survey found 735 human remains dating from before 1948. Of these, the majority of the remains are unprovenanced. 234 of the remains have an inferred but unverifiable provenance. Of the remains with an associated provenance, the majority are British but a significant number are non-European.
Total: 7000
University Archaeology Museum
Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
B15 2TT
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total:
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