YLM Database – Summaries
University Museum of Zoology at Cambridge
Downing Street
Cambridge
CB2 3EJ
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total:
University of Aberdeen Museums
Museums and Special Collections
The Sir Duncan Rice Library
Bedford Road
Aberdeen
AB24 3AA
https://calm.abdn.ac.uk/museums/
Funded by:
University
Number of ancestors in collection:
(HAD – 100 entered as a guess/proxy, UAM quotes ‘large number’ only)
Total: 100
University of Liverpool, Museum of Dentistry
Edwards Building
Pembroke Place
Liverpool
L3 5PS
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
Vale and Downland Museum
The Old Surgery
Church Lane
Wantage
Oxfordshire
OX12 8BL
http://www.wantage.com/museum/
Funded by:
Charitable Trust
Number of ancestors in collection:
Although the museum holds no human remains within its own collection, it does display remains borrowed from the Oxfordshire County Museum Service. It has not intention of adding human remains to its own collection, however.
Total: 0
Valence House Museum
Becontree Avenue, Dagenham, RM8 3HT
http://www.valencehousecollections.co.uk/
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
1) Excavated burial from Barking Abbey – potentially pre-Christian
2) Inhumation from Marks Gate
3) Inhumation from a plague pit
Total: 3
Victoria Gallery & Museum (University of Liverpool)
Ashton Street
Liverpool
L69 3DR
http://www.vgm.liverpool.ac.uk
Funded by:
University of Liverpool
Number of ancestors in collection:
None of the human remains in our collection are (to our knowledge) pre-Christian or Pagan in origin, and consist of what would be deemed ‘modern’ remains – for example, teaching models 18th/19th Century, modelled onto a skull or part of a skeleton. We are working through the catalogue attempting to identify the makers, but as most of them have been removed from their original cases, this is a slow process. At the time of writing, all manufacturers identified are European. There are also medical collections (such as mounted pelvis) from the 19th Century – originating in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology collection (these are a research collection held in a secure store and only accessible to bona fide researchers). We now care for the Dental Museum Collection, including ‘Waterloo Teeth’ which are dentures made from teeth recovered from battlefields in the 18th/19th Century. There is no way of knowing whether any of these sets contain teeth from English, French, Prussian, Dutch, or even American Civil War individuals.
Total:
Vindolanda Trust
Vindolanda Charitable Trust
Chesterholm Museum, Bardon Mill
Hexham
Northumberland
NE47 7JN
Funded by:
Vindolanda Charitable Trust
Number of ancestors in collection:
Magna Roman fort: one inhumation, eleven cremation burials, one pit with multiple cremated individuals, eight other cremated bone records.
Vindolanda Roman fort: one inhumation, four cremation burials, one possible cremation, six infant bone records, sixteen other human bone records.
Records range from single bones to hundreds of fragments.
Total: 49
Wakefield and Pontefract
Wakefields Museum
Wood Street, WF1 2EW
Pontefract Museum
Psalter Row, WF8 1BA
Funded by:
Local authority, Wakefield MDC
Number of ancestors in collection:
– no data supplied
Total:
Wall Roman Site
Staffordshire – WS14 0AW
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/wall-roman-site/
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total:
Walsall Museum
Lichfield Street
Walsall
West Midlands
WS1 1TR
http://www.walsall.gov.uk/index/libraries_museums_and_arts/museums/walsall_museum.htm
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum has one human remain : the hand and arm of a small child, known as the ‘Hand of Glory’. It is 19th century in date.
Total: 1
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