United Kingdom Collection (page 6)

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

Homo neanderthalensis (Swanscombe 1) Cranium
Three cranial bones discovered at the Barnfield Gravel Pit, Swanscombe, Kent between 1935 and 1955. Both the date and species of these homind remains have been the subject over the last decade or so

Tennantite
Crust of sparkling silvery metallic examples of tennanite (copper arsenic sulphide) some partly altered by copper rust in cavity in matrix. Specimen from Relistan mine, Cornwall

Meliceritites semiclausa, bryozoan
Branching colony of a fossil cyclostome bryozoan. Specimen originates from the Lower Cretaceous Faringdon Sponge Gravel, Faringdon, Oxfordshire

Potentilla nivea L. snow cinquefoil
Sketch 2, Newfoundland Volumes. From a collection of original drawings and sketches by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Liroconite comprises of (hydrated copper aluminum arsenate hydroxide). It is blue in colour and forms from the oxidation of copper ores. Specimen from the collections of the Truro Museum, Cornwall

Calamites sp. giant horsetail trunk
320-290 million year old specimen of a giant horsetail fern trunk from the Late Carboniferous period, U.K

H. neanderthalensis (Neanderthal 1) & H. neanderthalensis (S
A frontal view of the cranium of Neanderthal man discovered in Neander Valley, Germany with a Homo neanderthalensis cranium discovered at Swanscombe, UK

Ilex aquifolium, English holly
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Flint hand-axe
Late Palaeolithic from Farnham, Surrey, England

Shroud
Collected during the archaeological excavation at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1984-1986

Palaeoniscus freislebeni, fossil fish
Palaeoniscus freislebeni a fossil fish from the Permian rocks near Midderidge, Durham

Glatton meteorite
Mr Arthur Pettifor holding the Glatton meteorite which fell in Cambridgeshire on 5th May 1991

Earth Gallery, Natural History Museum, London
Photographing through a revolving globe in the atrium of the Natural History Museums Earth Galleries, part of the Visions of Earth Exhibition in Gallery 60

Plate 7 from Specimens of British Minerals? vol. 1 by P. Ras
Original painting from Specimens of British minerals, selected from the cabinet of P. Rashleigh, of Menabilly, in the County of Cornwall... (1797) By Philip Rashleigh

Plate 6 from Specimens of British Minerals? vol. 1 by P. Ras
Original painting from Specimens of British minerals, selected from the cabinet of P. Rashleigh, of Menabilly, in the County of Cornwall... (1797) By Philip Rashleigh

Plate 5 from Specimens of British Minerals? vol. 1 by P. Ras
Original painting from Specimens of British minerals, selected from the cabinet of P. Rashleigh, of Menabilly, in the County of Cornwall... (1797) By Philip Rashleigh

Plate 4 from Specimens of British Minerals? vol. 1 by P. Ras
Original painting from Specimens of British minerals, selected from the cabinet of P. Rashleigh, of Menabilly, in the County of Cornwall? by Philip Rashleigh (1797)

Plate 1a from Specimens of British Minerals? vol. 1 by P. Ra
Plate 1a woodlike-tin ores, from Specimens of British minerals, selected from the cabinet of P. Rashleigh, of Menabilly, in the County of Cornwall (1797) by Philip Rashleigh

Isochirotherium footprint
A cast of fossil footprints, measuring 38 cms long, from both hind feet of Isochirotherium herculis, an extinct reptile, discovered in Tarporley, Cheshire

Bronze Age necklace made of Porosphaera
The fossil sponge Porosphaera can be found within Britains Cretaceous chalk. This necklace of 79 Porosphaera specimens was found around the neck of a skeleton dating back 4

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

Retreating ice sheet
An illustration of a retreating ice sheet in Britain during the ice age

Quartzite

Rhynia major, fossilised plant
A complete soft tissue preservation at the cellular level in Rhynia major. Transverse section through stem, approximately 2mm in diameter. From Rhynie Chert, Scotland, Early Devonian

Bothrodendron minutifoliu, fossil clubmoss
Shown here is a fossilised leafy twig of a clubmoss originating from Carboniferous rocks near Barnsley, England

Sigillaria rugosa, fossil club moss
This section of a club moss trunk displays leaf scars where leaves grew straight out from. Club mosses could grow up to heights of 30 metres

Amber on a Norfolk beach
Amber is a fossilised form of tree resin. Baltic amber is occasionally washed up on the beaches of eastern Britain

Granite from Ailsa Craig
A photomicrograph of granite taken between crossed polarisers. Granite is an igneous rock

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