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

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

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.

July 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10 x 12 cm

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

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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.

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