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| Description | Former ref: SF49
Was previously DF141/160
File is labelled 'Oxford File Correspondence: Williamson Collection of human skulls, Rolleston Collection of human skulls and skeletal material and Kish, skulls & skeletal material. File contains an envelope labelled Extra Label 'Williamson Collection'
Correspondence dated Nov 1953 between F C Fraser (BMNH) and Lieut. Colonel J B Neal (Leisham Laboratory, Hants) relating to the Williamson Collection
D F Roberts (University Museum, Oxford) relating to card index dated relating to a collection of skulls March 1953, Mount Cemetery, York, Romano-British skulls dated 10 March 1953
H J Case (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) relating to the housing of 'cremation' specimens and a list of skulls sent to BN(NH) dated 19 Nov 1951
D B Harden (Ashmolean Museum) dated 30 Oct 1951 relating to skeletons from local excavations of various dates from Bronze Age to Saxon that have been proposed to be sent BM(NH)
J S Weiner relating to the return of missing mandibles
F K Penniman (Pitt Rivers Museum) relating to the Kish skeletal collection in Mesopotamia, Iraq
Document dated March 1946 that outlines the 'present' of the collection of skulls - the Rolleston collection from University Museum, Oxford and Kish collection from Pitt Rivers
Report on the collection of human skulls at the University Museum, Oxford
N B Kinnear, W E Le Gros Clark & E J Manly detailing the transfer of the Williamson collection, Rolleston collection and Kish collection dated 1945
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