United Kingdom Collection (page 2)

Hypsilophodon skull
Hypsilophodons narrow mouth would have been suitable for picking out soft shoots and leaves. Narrow mouths allow animals to select food with more care. This specimen lived 125 million years ago

Hypsilophodon foot
Hypsilophodons upper foot bones were long and the lower foot thin and flexible, very like todays running birds. This specimen which was discovered in England dates back 125 million years to

Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand, London
A printed poster advertising the Royal Menagerie in the Exeter Change, Strand, London c.1820

Paleontology Department of the Natural History Museum, Londo
Group photograph of the Paleontology Department of the Natural History Museum, London. Archives 178/3p

The Darwin Centre Phase One at the Natural History Museum, L
Exterior view of the Darwin Centre Phase One at the Natural History Museum, London

Fish Dapedium
Well preserved Dapedium fish from the Jurassic period

Goughs Cave artefacts
Replicas and specimens of artefacts found in Goughs Cave, Cheddar Gorge, Somerset

Spiranthes romanzoffiana, Irish Lady s-tresses orchid
Species found on Colonsay, Scotland, by Lady Strathcona and A.N. Skelton, July 1930

Part of human perinatal skeleton from Poundbury Cemetery (Romano-British, 2nd / 3rd century A.D.), Dorset

Natural History Museum flag flying at the Natural History Museum, London

Pidcocks Exhibition Alive, Exeter Change, Strand, London
Copper halfpenny token (28mm diameter) dated 1795 made by James. Advertising Pidcocks exhibition of living animals at the Exeter Change, Strand

Platanus x hispanica, London plane leaves
London plane leaves fallen in the Natural History Museum Wildlife Garden. Photo taken on November 1997 by Sue Snell

Homo sapiens (Goughs Cave 190) cranium
Modern human skull showing cut marks excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, late upper palaeolithic (Creswellian)

Homo sapiens (Goughs Cave) ulna
Broken human ulna excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, late upper palaeolithic (Creswellian)

Homo sapiens (Goughs Cave 6) mandible
Adult mandible excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dates back to around 14, 000 to12, 000 years ago (Creswellian)

32 Soho Square
Engraving from the Banks Archive at the Natural History Museum, London. 32 Soho Square was the residence and Herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks, an English naturalist and botanist

Susannite on Caledonite
4mm crystal of susannite (carbonate) in a mass of caledonite (suplhate). Specimen from the Roughton Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria

The Piltdown (Skull) Gravel Pit
The site where the Pitdown specimens were claimed to have been discovered (1912-1915). Photograph believed to have been taken during the winter of 1913

Bonnet
Collected during the archaelogical excavation at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1984-1986

Down House
Once the home of Charles Darwin and now the Darwin Museum, Orpington, Kent

Searching for the Piltdown Man

Crypt of Christ Church, Spitalfields
Picture taken during the archaelogical excavation at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1984-1986

Down House gardens
Once the home of Charles Darwin and now the Darwin Museum, Orpington, Kent

Pliosaurus ferox tooth
A fossil tooth that once belonged to the extinct carnivorous marine reptile, Pliosaurus ferox that lived during the Jurasic period

Hastings amber
This amber is from the Lower Cretaceous rocks of Hastings, East Sussex. Amber is fossilised tree resin

Medicine bottle found in a childs coffin during the archaeological excavation at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1984-1986

Homo sapiens (Goughs Cave 139) maxillae
Adult modern human maxillae excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, (Creswellian)

Flint artifact (Goughs Cave)
Creswellian flint artifacts excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, late upper palaeolithic (Creswellian)

Homo sapiens (Goughs Cave 22 / 87)
Adolescent human maxillae excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, (Creswellian)

Decorative terracotta pillars

Egg display in the Bird Gallery of the Natural History Museu
Exhibition of bird eggs illustrating the great variety in sizes. This display is part of the Bird gallery at the Natural History Museum, London

Terracotta relief sculpture at the Natural History Museum, L
Detail of terracotta relief sculpture in the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, London. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905)

A gold lower denture
A lower denture formed from a sheet of gold whith was cut and folded around the lower molars. The upper component is lost

London Jack, The Orphanage Friend. This dog from 1894 to 1900 collected for the L&S.W.R servants orphanage e250 & for other charitable objects e200

Roman lamp and fossil brachiopod
PDT replica of roman lamp and the fossil brachiopod (Terebratula maxima Charlesworth) from the Pliocene. Coralline Crag. Park Pit, Sudbourne Park, Suffolk

Cyrtopirifer verneuili (Murchison), Delabole butterfly brach
A Delabole butterfly brachiopod (Cyrtopirifer verneuili Murchison) specimen from the Upper Devonian, Delabole Quarry, nr Camelford, Cornwall

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