YLM Database – Summaries
Duckworth Laboratory – Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies
The Henry Wellcome Building
University of Cambridge
Fitzwilliam Street
Cambridge
CB2 1QH
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Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura
The Observatory, Rotchell Road, Dumfries DG2 7SW
Funded by:
Dumfries and Galloway Council – local authority museum
Number of ancestors in collection:
48 records representing single items, collections, or excavation assemblages relating to human remains found in Dumfries and Galloway.
Total: 48
Durham County Council Culture and Leisure
The Rivergreen Centre
Aykley Heads
Durham
DH1 5TS
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Durham Learning Resources
Durham
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Number of ancestors in collection:
Total: 0
East Ridings Museum Service
10 Lord Roberts Road
Beverley
Hull
HU17 9BE
https://www.eastriding.gov.uk/
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
About 45 catalogue records relating to either cremated human remains or skeletal material, of Bronze Age to Medieval date. The majority will be pagan, especially early Anglo-Saxon material.
Total: 45
Edinburgh National Museum
Chamber Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1JF
Scotland
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Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum in Edinburgh is huge. In its archaeology section, there are 300 skeletons or parts of skeletons in their collection, although, not all of them are on display. Those that weren’t on display were in the Human Remains unit in Edinburgh for scientific study. All of them are documented, including the full skeleton on display which had a paragraph of explanation.
Total: 300
Elgin Museum
1 High Street
Elgin
Moray, IV30 5QS
Funded by:
Donations
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Epping Forest District Museum
39-41 Sun Street
Waltham Abbey
Essex
EN9 1EL
https://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/museum/
Funded by:
Local Authority
Number of ancestors in collection:
The Museum currently curates six complete and fragmentary human remains within it’s collection, dating from the Roman to Medieval periods.
The Museum curates a Roman cremation burial from the site of Little London (Durolitum), Chigwell, which could be pre-Christian. The five remaining skeletons are Anglo-Saxon and Medieval and understood to be Christian burials.
Total: 6
Erewash Museum
High St
Ilkeston
Derbyshire
DE7 5JA
http://www.erewashmuseum.co.uk
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We hold no human remains and it is against our collecting policy to acquire human remains.
Total: 0
Eyam Museum
Hawkhill Road
Eyam
Hope Valley
Derbyshire
S32 5QP
http://www.eyammuseum.demon.co.uk/
Funded by:
Independent Charitable Trust
Number of ancestors in collection:
The museum currently holds seven fragments of human remains, including teeth, left and right mandible, and a skull fragment.
Total: 7
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