United Kingdom Collection (page 5)

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 flake implement
Piltdown, Sussex item E.612 held at The Natural History Museum, London

Piltdown Eolithic flint
Piltdown, Sussex item E.614 held at The Natural History Museum, London

Piltdown rolled flake
Piltdown, Sussex item E.613 held at The Natural History Museum, London

Piltdown flint implement
Piltdown, Sussex item E.605 held at The Natural History Museum, London

Piltdown Palaeolith flint
Piltdown, Sussex item E.685 held at The Natural History Museum, London

Piltdown memorial
July 1938, Sir Arthur Smith Woodward next to the memorial marking the site of the discovery of the Piltdown skull by Charles Dawson. Photograph loaned to Museum by Charles Taylor Trechmann

Matonidium goeperti
Jurassic fossil leaf from York, England. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Ginkgo adeantoides
Eocene fossil leaf from Ardtun Head, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Platinites hebridicus
Eocene fossil leaf from Ardtun Head, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Cycadeoidea microphylla
Jurassic extinct bennettitalean cycad like plant from Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Pagiophyllum peregrynum
Thick, robust leaves of the extinct conifer from Lyme Regis, Dorset, England dating from Upper Jurassic. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Trigonocarpus parkinsoni
Large nutlike seeds (about 2.5cm long) from the coal measures of England dating from Upper Carboniferous. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Neuropteris heterophylla
Fern like frond of the extinct gymnosperm from Clay Cross, Derbyshire, England dating from the Carboniferous. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Piltdown 1 molar
Scanning electron microscope view of molar surface showing scratch marks

Homo sapiens molars (Piltdown 1)
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

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

Preparing models, c. 1924. The Natural History Museum, Lond
Percy and Stuart Latham Stammwitz, seen here adding details to a replica horse, were responsible for preparing models and mounted specimens required for gallery displays by the Zoology Department

Study of a Canon
A detailed study containing an illustration and reference notes of a canon, 1787. Drawing number 2 from the George Raper drawing collection held within the Natural History Museum, London

Natives fishing in their Canoe, Port Jackson

Nanberry, a native boy of Port Jackson
A painting by George Raper, 1792, part of the George Raper drawing collection held within the Natural History Museum, London

Implements of the Duke of York Islands and St Georges Channe

Aeolothrips sp. banded thrips
This insects is a pest to Hyupocloeris sp. and Verbascum sp. plants. Specimen originating from Kew Gardens, Surrey, England by G.D. Morison

Limonium recurvum, sea lavendar
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Homo sapiens (Goughs Cave 3) cranium
Modern human childs skull with cut marks excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset. Dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, late upper palaeolilthic (Creswellian)

Senftenbergia sp
Fossil fern fronds from Britain, is 320-290 million years old from the Late Carboniferous. On display in the From the Beginning, Gallery 63, Earth Galleries at the Natural History Museum, London

Goughs Cave excavation site
Excavations at Goughs cave, Cheddar, Somerset. The site of Goughs Cave was first discovered by R.C. Gough in 1903. It is a limestone cave on the east side of Cheddar Gorge

Todites denticulatus
Jurassic fossil leaf from York, England. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Conodonts, tooth like fossils
These microscopic tooth like fossils are from the Ordovician period of the Ludlow area, Shropshire, UK about 420m yrs old (Magnification x 3.8)

Homo sapiens (Goughs Cave 49) mandible
Adolescent modern human mandible found during excavations in Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset, dates back to around 14, 000 - 12, 000 year ago, (Creswellian)

Terebratula, a fossil brachiopod
The pedicle opening is very clear in this British Pliocene example of Terebratula measuing 6.6 cm in height

Architectural features of the Main Hall
View of architectural features of the Central Hall at the Natural History Museum, London. Showing the carved terracotta pillars and guilded ceiling panels

Baryte
Specimen of the mineral Baryte from Wheal Mary Ann Menheriot, Cornwal, England

Exhibit from the Human Biology gallery
Close up of exhibit in the Human Biology gallery. A model of a human head illustrating the computing functions of the human brain

Barrandeoceras sp
A fossil invertebrate from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Porosphaera (sponge) necklace
Necklace of Porosphaera beads from the Bronze Age, Higham Marshes, near Rochester, Kent. From the neck of a crouched skeleton in a stone-lined grave

Axinite

Meteoric stone, Crumlin
One of a series of 5 postcards featuring British meteorites produced and sold by the museum in the 1920s

Meteoric stone, Appley Bridge
One of a series of 5 postcards featuring British meteorites produced and sold by the museum in the 1920s

The Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London
Photograph of the interior of the Darwin Centre, a state-of-the-art scientific research and collections facility at the Natural History Museum, London which opened in Septmber 2009

Cyclothyris difformis, brachiopod
Shown here ia a rhynchonellid brachiopod from the Cretaceous of Devon. Brachiopods belong to their own phylum (Brachiopoda). General characteristics include a pair of protective shells

Opthalmosaurus & Stenosaurus
Extinct fossil marine reptiles, Opthalmosaurus icenicus (above) and Stenosaurus leedsi (below) from the Upper Jurassic Oxford Clay at Peterborough. On display at the Natural History Museum, London

Brochantite
A specimen of the mineral brochantite (copper sulphate hydroxide) from the Fowey Consols mine, St Blazey, Cornwall. A rippled green mass of minute crystals, with similar (but blue-green) langite

Dendritic gold growth
Gold (Au) is an elemental metal. Dendritic or branching gold growth on a specimen from Hopes Nose, Devon, England, length 5cm

Species of prawn and shrimp reared at the Museum
To understand more about the life histories of many Atlantic shellfish species are reared at the Museum & observed closely

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