YLM Database – Summaries
Wardown Park Museum
Luton Museums Service
Old Bedford Road
Luton
Bedfordshire
LU2 7HA
Funded by:
Local Authority and Renaissance
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum holds over 500 human remains in its collection. Of these, 165 are recorded as preChristian and 140 as Christian. The remainder need further investigation or have insufficient information.
Total: 500
Warrington Museum and Art Gallery
Bold Street
Warrington
Cheshire
WA1 1JB
http://museum.warrington.gov.uk/
Funded by:
Local Authority : Warrington Borough Council
Number of ancestors in collection:
Around 60 objects or groups of objects contain human remains. Of these around 24 (40%) could be described as of ancient British preChristian or pagan provenance.
Total: 60
Warwickshire Museum
Market Place
Warwick
CV34 4SA
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total:
Weald & Downland Living Museum
Town Lane, Singleton,
West Sussex PO18 0EU
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
Wednesbury Art Gallery and Museum
Holyhead Road
Wednesbury
WS10 7DF
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total:
Wells & Mendip Museum
8 Cathedral Green
Wells
Somerset
BA 2UE
http://www.wellsmuseum.org.uk/
Funded by:
Independent Trust
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum states that it does not know the number of human remains in their collection, nor the religion of the individuals whose remains they hold.
Total:
Welwyn Hatfield Museums Service across two sites: Mill Green Museum & Welwyn Roman Baths
Mill Green
Hatfield
Hertfordshire
AL9 5PD
Welwyn Roman Baths, Welwyn Bypass Road, Welwyn, AL6 9FG
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
In total 8 complete skeletons, one cremation, one skull, and various bones.
Within the museum service collection there are 6 complete skeletons from Grange Cemetery, a Romano-British site; an infant burial from Dicket Mead, also a Romano-British site; and one skeleton and cremation from Welwyn Hall site again Romano-British in origin. In addition the collection includes individual bones and part skeletons from the Welwyn Hall site. Finally, the collection includes a skull and skull fragments from Pope’s Farm site which covers 13th-18th Century. The excavation report stated the skull has been dated to the 13th Century due to the context it was found in but also suggests the fragments may not have originated at this site.
Total: 8
Weymouth Museum
Brewers Quay, Hope Square, Weymouth DT4 8TR
Funded by:
Volunteer run museum funded mainly by donations and admission charges
Number of ancestors in collection:
Two skeletons identified as being Romano-British
Total: 2
Whitby Museum
Pannett Park
Whitby
North Yorkshire
YO21 1RE
Funded by:
Charitable society
Number of ancestors in collection:
None
Total: 1
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Slatey Road, Birkenhead CH43 4UE
http://www.williamsonartgallery.org/
Funded by:
Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
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