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| Description | Former ref: AL 1963/7
Was previously DF141/85
John Baker, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, enquiry relating to skulls in the BM(NH) collection
Transfer of ‘a small collection of mainly datable human skulls and other human skeletal material’ from the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities at the British Museum to the BM(NH) in 1966
Provenance information Natural History Museum Specimin number 1944.9.10.1
Bernard Denston, Duckworth Laboratory, Cambridge, relating to skeletons from Hinxworth, Hertfordshire
F Flice Leek, British Dental Association, relating to the loan of skulls
Transfer of skulls, from Greenwell Collection, British Museum Department of British and Medieval Antiquities
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