YLM Database – Summaries
Burnham-on-Crouch and District Museum
Coronation Road, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex CM0 8AS
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Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre
Moss Street
Bury
Greater Manchester
BL9 0DR
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
BUYGM.2010. 45 – Irwell bones – Whitelow Hill, Bronze Age cairn-circle, Ramsbottom near Bury discovered in 1960 by members of Bury Archaeological Group. The excavation revealed a developed and somewhat complicated structure containing more than a dozen cremation burials, many accompanied by artefacts and pottery of a relatively early date. We have these bone fragments in our collection.
BUYGM. T430, T675 T677 – Bronze Age bone fragments from Bank Lane Cairn, Shuttleworth, nr Bury.
BUYGM. T658-Human Skull – no documentation about this object.
Total: 3
Butcher’s Row Museum
Burgage Hall
Church Lane
Ledbury
Herefordshire
HR8 1DW
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Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
Buxton Museum
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Terrace Road
Buxton
Derbyshire
SK17 6DA
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
Human remains and cinerary remains from 23 archaeological sites in the Peak District (our collecting area), all pre-300CE, as far as we can tell. It is difficult to tell exactly how many individual people from the fragmentary nature of the materials.
Total: 23
Byland Abbey
North Yorkshire – YO61 4BD
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/byland-abbey/
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Cambridge and County Folk Museum
2/3 Castle Stree
Cambridge
CB3 0AQ
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Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
Canterbury Museums and Galleries
Canterbury City Council, Commercial & Cultural Development
The Beaney, 18 Hight Street
Canterbury
CT1 2RA
https://canterburymuseums.co.uk
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
● Cremations: 17 Roman Cremations all placed in funerary jars/urns. One of these may be Belgic in type/series, therefore late Iron Age in date. British.
● Mummies: Within the collection there is an Ancient Egyptian mummified head.
● Inhumation burials from around Canterbury:
○ Pit burials excavated at Cakebread Robey, 1980. 4 individual skeletons.
○ 2 skeletons from Anglos-Saxon graves, excavated from Eastry in 1967.
○ 2 graves excavated from London Road & Whitehall.
○ 4 graves excavated from Barham Downs 1968 Area IV.
○ Roman inhumation excavated from Bridge 1956.
● Remaining human remains listed by box location:
○ MAGS, Small finds Store, Box A1
■ Inhumation human remains from Whitehall Road 1956.
■ Human bone, Bequest from Brent. cancm:2297
■ Complete fragmented Anglo-Saxon Skull, excavated from Priory Hill Downs Saxon in 1887. cancm:6660
■ Skull and long bone fragments, excavated from Bradborne in 1955. cancm:6661
■ MDB 70
■ Fragments of Iron Age human skeletal remains.
■ Anglo Saxon human remains excavated from Elham 1960.
■ 2 skulls “Dr Martin’s Collection”.
○ MAGS, Small finds Store, Box B1
■ Human remains from Frere sites CXIII RIV (06) / LX XIV LIII L.15 CXXVI cremations I & II/CXXXII SV (017) CXXBIV – other = 2 skulls Whitstable & 2 skulls unknown
■ Human remains from Ospringe 5B1II.
■ Human remains from Alkham & 2 Lyminge 5B1ii
■ Human remains 5 Skulls, 3 Jawbones, 1 skull presented by W H Bennett July 11.06
○ MAGS, Small finds Store, Box B1
■ Human remains: skull from stonar, skull from Shatterling, bones from Barham Down 1971, skull from Riding Gate Inn, arm bones from Canterbury, long bone from Crundale churchyard 1959.
■ Remains from Bridge prior 1976. cancm:10001.
■ Human remains consisting of long bones and a bone spoon. Excavated rear of Old Stag Inn, Seasalte.
■ 2 inhumation burials: skeleton of foot and hobnails BC73 39 VN; Burial 2 Baby fragmentary. Excavated at New Street.
■ Human remains excavated from Westgate on Sea 1960.
○ MAGS, Small finds Store, Box C1
■ Human remains excavated from Bridge Hill 1956/42 5Ciii.
○ MAGS, Small finds Store, Box C2
■ Roman human remains, site reference: BS 5C2 ii
■ Human remains, excavated from Bridge hill 1956.
■ CAT BS 5C2 iv RL/P 77 Human remains excavated from Rosemary Lane car park
○ MAGS, Small finds Store, Box C3
■ Crushed bone in brick earth TR553/163. Excavated in Bridge.
■ Human remains in the upper grave, excavated from Bekesbourne.
■ Human remains excavated from Bekesbourne 1959.
Total: 71
Carisbrooke Castle
Isle of Wight – PO30 1XY
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/carisbrooke-castle/
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Carlisle Cathedral Treasury Museum
7 The Abbey
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA3 8TZ
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Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
Castle Museum Norwich
Norwich Castle Study Centre
Shirehall
Market Avenue
Norwich
NR1 3JQ
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum holds around 1000 human remains, about 100 of which are nonChristian.
Total: 1000
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