Piltdown Archive Collection (page 2)

Piltdown 1 molars
Examination of the Piltdown dentition revealed that the molars which had been claimed to have been discovered in 1913 were abraded to make them appear older. They were in fact molars from an Orangutan

Harry Morris Flint

Arthur Keith (1866-1955)
Portrait of Arthur Keith, a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, in 1912. In 1935 he re-evaluated his 1914 interpretation of the Piltdown fossil

Barkham Manor drive, Piltdown
View looking down Barkham Manor drive, c. 1930, with Woodward in the foreground. This photograph is believed to have been taken by Lady Woodward or her daughter Mrs Margaret Hodgson

Piltdown cricket bat
Side view of sharpened piece of elephant thighbone, presented as a digging implement. Commonly referred to as the Piltdown cricket bat. Held at The Natural History Museum, London

Barkham Manor, Piltdown
The Barkham Manor Piltdown I site, c. 1912, from vantage point due east of the manor house

Piltdown 1 jaw with Piltdown 2 molar

Still Searching At Piltdown
A general impression of the Piltdown Gravel Pit, East Sussex c. 1913, with the goose Chipper, and from left to right, Venus Hargreaves, Arthur Smith Woodward, Charles Dawson

Cranium and mandible (Piltdown 1 & 2)
Piltdown man cranium and mandible as reconstructed on the left by Dr. A Smith Woodward and on the right by Professor Arthur Keith

Piltdown bone implement (cricket bat)
Several views of a single specimen. Plate XIV, Dawson & Woodward, 1915

Sir Arthur Keith at the Piltdown memorial
July 22 1938, Sir Arthur Keith unveiling the memorial marking the site of the discovery of the Piltdown skull by Charles Dawson. Photograph loaned to Museum by Charles Taylor Trechmann

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