M0014800: Mesolithic concreted deposit, from the floor of a Scottish cave, containing food refuse and limpet shells

Date:
July 1956
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WT/D/1/20/1/132/36
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M0014800: Mesolithic concreted deposit, from the floor of a Scottish cave, containing food refuse and limpet shells. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2021: Concreted deposit, from the floor of a cave, containing food refuse and limpet shells. Scottish mesolithic

Description

Photograph of a concreted deposit excavated from the kitchen middens of Oban Caves, Scotland. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1932 and accessioned in 1946 (accession number R530/1946). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

July 1956

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10 x 12 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number R530/1946

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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