Fragment Collection (page 8)

Wold Cottage meteorite
The earliest surviving meteorite seen to land in the UK fell in Wold Cottage, Yorkshire, in 1795. It prompted the first serious investigation into the origin of meteorites

Moa bone fragment
First piece of moa bone, found between 1831 and 1836. The 15cm fragment comes from the species Dinornis novaezealandiae and is 0.01-1.8 million years old

Fragment of a tapestry by Queen Marie Antoinette.. Handcolored lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885

Old testament scenes.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889

A Fragment From - Germany, by Bairnsfather
A Fragment From - Germany Hindenburg (home on weekend leave): " Look here, Frau H, if you want to stick nails into anything theres my statue outside" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather

The Weeks Fragment, by Bairnsfather
This Weeks " Fragment" Two Minds with but a Single Thought A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, featuring popular character Old Bill 1916

IBN BUTLAN, Abu-l Hasan al-Mujtar (c. 1001 - 1066). Nestorian Christian physician and philosopher of Baghdad. Folio 83r. Illustration about the quince, which revives and restores the appetite

Fragment of a woody branch of vine attacked by the vegetative part of a fungus or mycelium. Illustration for La Maladie des Vignes (The disease of the vines)

Olive harvest. Fragment of bas relief. Late 3rd century - early 4th century A.D. Roman art. Late Empire. Relief on marble. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Cordoba. Archaeological Museum of Cordoba. Proc: SPAIN

Parthenon. Pediment. Greek art
Laborde Head. 448 - 432 BC. Fragment of the feminine figure from the western fronton pediment. Classical Greek art. Sculpture on marble. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Louvre Museum

Codex granatensis, h. 1400. Tacuinum sanitatis. Quince
IBN BUTLAN, Abu-l Hasan al-Mujtar (c. 1001 - 1066). Nestorian Christian physician and philosopher of Baghdad. Folio 83v. Illustration about the quince, which revives and restores the appetite

Paris, France - Notre-Dame. Date: 19th century

Head and shoulders study of Alf smoking - Bairnsfather
Head and shoulders study of Alf smoking, signed and inscribed A fragment from Bruce Bairnsfather. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1St Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)

A cat and her family in the Trenches - WWI
A cat and her family in the Trenches. The only inhabitants of a ruined farm near the front line. (The cat had evidently been hit by a shell fragment for one of its paws was missing)

This Weeks Fragment by Bruce Bairnsfather
This Weeks Fragment " Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands" In a rather sombre Bruce Bairnsfather illustration, a bombed out smithy is stood, crumbling

Head of a Saint : possibly a Fragment of a Nativity. Master of the Female Half-Lengths fl. 1520-1540

Skull cups and bone fragments, Goughs Cave
Skull cups identified among human remains from Goughs Cave, Somerset. At around 14, 700 years old, the skull cups are the oldest directly dated examples in the world

Phiolophus vulpiceps. Skull of a dawn horse found in Harwich

Titanopteryx philadelphiae wing bones
From a pterodactyloid pterosaur from the late Cretaceous in Jordan. Upper bones are fragments of the elbow joint. The lower from a finger bone which formed a wing support

Agate
This polished agate specimen from Saxony is called Breccia Sanguigna. This brecciated agate comprises mainly of irregular sized fragments of cryptocrystalline quartz, set in a finer matrix

The Estherville mesosiderite formed after a catastrophic collision between two asteroids. Mesosiderites are an irregular jumble of metal grains and angular pieces of rock

Quaternary fissure breccia
Watercolour drawing of a fissure breccia from the Quaternary period (Pleistocene Epoch or Ice Age), fossilised with mammalian bones. From a collection of original watercolour drawings, c

The Canyon Diablo meteorite
The cut, polished and etched surface of the Canyon Diablo meteorite reveals its high iron content

The Abee EH4 enstatite chondrite
Abee fell in Canada in 1953. The cut surface clearly shows the metal-rich and brecciated texture of Abee

Vigarano CV3 chondrite
This carbonaceous chondrite meteorite fell in Italy in 1910. It has clearly delineated chondrules or small granules

Parnallee LL3. 6 ordinary chondrite
Parnallee fell in India in 1857. The cut surface clearly shows well-delineated chondrules and slightly larger clasts

Brownfield (1973) H3. 7 ordinary chondrite
This meteorite fell in Texas in 1937. It has very small chondrules, plus highly-reflective metal and sulphide grains can easily be picked out

A group of fragments of fossil crinoids
Watercolour of a group of fragments of fossil crinoids (feather-stars or sea-lilies) by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Kyanite comprises of (aluminum silicate) and shares this composition with both sillimanite and adalusite. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London

Siderite
Stout prisms of siderite, up to 1.7cm long and terminated by basal place and narrow rhombohedrom faces, on quartz crystals. Specimen from the Great Onslow Consol mine, St. Breward, Cornwall

Homo sapiens cranium (Piltdown 1)
Two pieces that represent the Piltdown 1 cranium held at The Natural History Museum, London. This specimen was reported as being discovered at Piltdown

Piltdown 1 cranium
Five pieces that represent the Piltdown 1 cranium (not including jaw). Held at The Natural History Museum, London

Plate 11. Mantells Geology of Sussex
Plate 11 from Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex, 1827 by G. A. Mantell

Tillite
This Tillite specimen is from Kimberley, South Africa. Tillites are the consolidated remains of the rock fragments and powder that are left behind as a glacier melts and retreats

Septastraea forbesi, coral
This Pliocene coral from Maryland, USA is 10 cm long and is a fragment of a much larger colony

The Barwell meteorite, showing a rock frgament formed by melting of a pre-existing planetary body; this indicates that plantesimals were present when chondrules formed

Partially fusion-crusted stone
A 294g (10oz) partially fusion crusted stone from the Camel Donga eucrite strewn field. The orange/brown staining on the black, fusion crusted surface is staining from the local soil

Chergach meteorite

Podoces pleskei, pleskes ground jay
Pleskes ground jay egg specimens (one fragment)

Gymnoris dentata, bush petronia
Bush Petronia egg specimens (one fragment)

Leaf fragments, figure from Descriptiones Fruticum et Arboru
This volume, by Georg Joseph Camel, was held in the library of Sir Hans Sloane

Agglomerate
An agglomerate is a rock formed of angular volcanic fragments. Specimen from Volcanoes 2nd edition fig 57 (top)

Sivapithecus meteai cranial fragment
A lower fragment of the cranium of Sivapithecus meteai showing maxilla, incisors, canine, premolars and molars. This specimen dates back 9 million years and was discovered in Yassorien, Turkey

Modern Homo sapiens skull (Skhul V)
A three-quarter view of a cast reconstruction of fragments of skull discovered at the Skhul Cave, Israel. This specimen dates back to 105, 000 years ago. It is known as Skhul V

Fragment of Egyptian fabric with hippopotamus of the Fatimid period (9th c.). Islamic art. Textiles. EGYPT. Cairo. Museum of Islamic Arts

Fragment of Greek glass with a representation of a comedy mask. Greek art. Ceramics. ITALY. Adria. National Museum of Archaeology

Satyr. Fragment of An

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