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| Description | Former ref: AL 1955/5
Correspondence relating to the Guanche skulls from the Canary Islands in the BM(NH) collection, including;
Exchanges of casts between the BM(NH) and Migeul Fusté at Uniersidad de Barcelona in the 1950s, relating to casts of Anglo-Saxon calvaria from Kent, Cheddar Man skull, Neolithic skull, Cova Negra parietal, and a Bronze Age skull from "La Sinia de Andreu" in Mahon (Menorca)
Correspondence relating to the transfer of bone material from the Royal College of Surgeons collected from Southern Spain by Colonel Willoughby
Correspondence relating to a bronze implement with a wooden core and two pieces of wood from Torralba from Ignacio Olague (Madrid)
Kenneth P Oakley relating to a flint hand axe from Swanscombe
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