United Kingdom Collection (page 3)

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

Detail of terracotta relief sculpture on pillar on the first floor of the Central Hall, Natural History Museum, London. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse

Psilomelane
A bright black botryoidal mass of psilomelane. Psilomelane comprises of (barium manganese oxide hydroxide). Specimen from Monkstone mine, Brent Tor, Devon

Scotlandite comprises of (lead sulphite) and derives from the sulphates group. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London originally from Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Cassiterite
A dark-brown single crystal of cassiterite among quartz. Cassiterite comprises of (tin oxide) and forms ornately faceted crystals with high lustre. Specimen from Turnavore mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall

Chalcosine
Dull black twinned crystal with white calcite (schiefer spar). From the Levant mine, St. Just, Cornwall, UK

Connellite
Deep-blue velvety crust of needles with some red cuprite. Connellite comprises of (hydrated copper sulphate chloride hydroxide). Specimen from Wheal Muttrell, Gwennap, Cornwall

Tetrahedrite

Pyromorphite

Pholiodophorus bechei, fossil fish
A bony fish specimen preserved in the Jurassic rocks near Lyme Regis, Dorset

Mendipite is exclusive to the Mendips of Somerset. This specimen is from Merehead Quarry. Mendipite belongs to the oxyhalides and hydroxyhalides group

Flint tool from the Pakefield excavation site. Manmade stone tools have been discovered in Suffolk, in the UK, and indicate humans were living there at least 680, 000 years ago

Pakefield flint tools
Flint tools from the Pakefield excavation site. Manmade stone tools have been discovered in Suffolk, in the UK, and indicate humans were living there at least 680, 000 years ago

Flint tools from the Pakefield excavation site. Manmade stone tools have been discovered in Suffolk, in the UK, and indicate humans were living there at least 680, 000 years ago

Cenoceras pseudolineatus, nautiloid
A section cut and polished through Jurassic nautiloid from Dorset, UK. Shows the internal chambers filled or partly filled with calcite. Diameter 7cm

The Palaeontology Wing at The Natural History Museum, London
The Palaeontology wing extending to the east of the main Museum frontage, was opened in May 1977 it provides 10, 000 square meters of floor area over seven floors for the study

Charles Darwins Study, Down House, Kent
Charles Darwins family house now administered by English Heritage

Anglian ice sheet
A reconstruction of the front of the Anglian ice sheet in Precambrian (4, 500 to 543 million years ago) north London

Excavations at Piltdown circa 1913
Charles Dawson (left) and Dr A Smith Woodward (right)

Chalcophyllite
Chalcopyrite or copper pyrite comprises of (copper iron sulphide). Its a common mineral and found in almost all sulphide deposits

Millstone Grit, Stanage Edge, Derbyshire
A Millstone Grit outcrop at Stanage Edge, Derbyshire. Old, discarded mill stone wheels can bee seen in the foreground

Down House, Kent
Charles Darwins family house now administered by English Heritage

Pleistocene Britain
An artists impression of Britain at the time of the penultimate glaciation, from space during the Pleistocene period (1.8 million to 11, 000 years ago)

Ice age Britain
Display illustrating the ice sheet which moved over Scotland around 670 million years ago. The Natural History Museum, London

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