7 groups of fossils and 6 odd ones

Made:: Unattributed place

7 groups of fossils and 6 odd ones, some associated documentation, 2 decorated spindle ohorls, collected (?) and owned by Claud Woakes, English?, sometime during his lifetime, 1868-1936

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A650756

Materials:: rock

type:: fossils

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Parts

Fossils, five pieces of belemnite

5 pieces of belemnite fossils, 2 labelled as such

Materials:: rock

Object Number:: A650756 Pt1

type:: fossil

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Fossils, ammonite, one large three small

4 ammonite fossils, one large 3 small, 2 in bad condition

Materials:: rock

Object Number:: A650756 Pt2

type:: fossil

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Slate, six pieces with traces of graptolites

6 pieces of slate with traces of graptolites, 2 labelled

Materials:: rock

Object Number:: A650756 Pt3

type:: fossil

Rock, six pieces, containing fossils of trilobites

6 pieces of differing types of rock, containing fossils of trilobites, of different sizes

Materials:: rock

Object Number:: A650756 Pt4

type:: fossil

Two pieces of rock containing pentacrinite fossils

2 pieces of soft grey rock containing pentagrinite (?) fossils

Materials:: rock

Object Number:: A650756 Pt5

type:: fossil

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Trilobite-like fossils within eight pieces of slate

8 pieces of slate containing parts of tilobite-like fossil

Materials:: rock

Object Number:: A650756 Pt6

type:: fossil

Thirteen small fossils of bi-valves, complete on both sides

13 small fossils of bi-valves, complete on both sides, 1 labelled as such

Materials:: rock

Object Number:: A650756 Pt7

type:: fossil

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Piece of slate containing a two armed fossil

Rectangular piece of slate with small 2-armed fossil in it, labelled

Materials:: rock

Object Number:: A650756 Pt8

type:: fossil

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Small rock containing a shell-shaped, ribbed fossil

Small piece of rock containing a shell-shaped, ribbed fossil

Materials:: rock

Object Number:: A650756 Pt9

type:: fossil

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Small piece of rock containing a fossil

Small piece of rock containing fossil

Materials:: rock

Object Number:: A650756 Pt10

type:: fossil

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Piece of rock containing fish-like fossil

Small piece of yellowish rock containing fish-like fossil

Materials:: rock

Object Number:: A650756 Pt11

type:: fossil

Piece of rock containing cylindrical ribbed fossil

Whitish piece of rock containing cylindrical ribbed fossil, possibly stem of crinoid (?)

Materials:: rock

Object Number:: A650756 Pt12

type:: fossil

Small disintegrating rock, possibly ammonite fossil

Materials:: rock

Object Number:: A650756 Pt13

type:: fossil

Spindle whorl, stone, cone shaped, central hole

Cone-shaped spindle whorl flat on back, v-shaped on front, front decorated, hole through centre

Materials:: stone

Object Number:: A650756 Pt14

type:: spindle whorl

Spindle whorl, stone, hole through centre

Cone-shaped spindle whorl, reddish stone, perforated through centre, cross-hatched decoration

Materials:: stone

Object Number:: A650756 Pt15

type:: spindle whorl

Notes by Claude Edward Woakes on various fossils

9 sheets of paper, 3 printed, rest handwritten, notes made by Woakes on various fossils

Materials:: paper

Object Number:: A650756 Pt16

type:: document