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Reproduction of three photographs of an Acheulian cleaver from Furze Platt, Lent Rise, Maidenhead, Berkshire. Published in Antiquaries Journal, 1940.

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0014873-M0015013

3 photographs glass plate negatives; range in size from4.5 x 12 cm to  8.3 x 10.8 cm

M0014873: Group of emaciated men during the famine in Bangalore (Bengaluru), 1876-78

M0014874: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition "Evolution of Measures for the Promotion of the Nation's Health": bad working conditions, 1956

M0014876: Vaccine points used by Edward Jenner

M0014877: Instruments used for vaccination, mid 19th century

M0014878: Four lancets used by Edward Jenner

M0014879: Mallam's patent instanteneous vaccinator

M0014880: Leonardo da Vinci's illustration of a foetus in the womb

M0014881: Bust of Hippocrates in the Capitoline Museum, Rome

M0014882: The figure of an old woman, small carving in wax

M0014884: Statue of Asclepius in the Capitoline Museum, Rome

M0014885: Tobacco clyster, or enema

M0014886: Santorio sitting in the balance that he constructed to determine the net weight change over time after the intake and excretion of food stuffs and fluids, 1626

M0014887: Clinical thermometers of Sanctorius, 1626

M0014888: Naples quarantine station, "Offizia della Sanita"

M0014889: Reduction of a dislocated shoulder, 16th century

M0014890: Reduction of a dislocated knee, 16th century

M0014891: Portrait of Diarmid Noel Paton (1859-1928) / M0014892: Portrait of Samuel James Cameron (1878-1959)

M0014893: Portrait of Sir John William McNee (1887-1984) / M0014894: Portrait of Edward Provan Cathcart (1877-1954)

M0014895: Portrait of Ralph Stockmann (1861-1946) / M0014896: Portrait of Duncan McCallum Blair (1896-1944)

M0014897: Portrait of Ryukichi Inada (1874-1950)

M0014898: Armstrong: Proposals for administering advice and medicines, 1769: title and first page

M0014899: Armstrong: Proposals for administering advice and medicines, 1769: second and third pages

M0014900: Attic lekythos, in black figure technique showing four figures dancing

M0014901: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: fluviatile gravel exposed in section in Mansion Lane gravel pit

M0014902: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: View of Mansion Land gravel pit and flat of the Iver Terrace

M0014904: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: view of Mansion Lane gravel pit and flat of the Iver Terrace

M0014905: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: section in Purser's Pit (backing against Great Western Railway on north)

M0014908: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: Mansion Lane gravel pit in early days of mechanical working

M0014910: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: section in pit worked in the Lent Rise-Furze Platt (lower Boyn Hill) Terrace

M0014911: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: view looking north, Lent Rise-Furze Platt (lower Boyn Hill) Terrace

M0014914: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: section in Lent Rise Furze Platt (lower Boyn Hill) Terrace

M0014915: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: section in pit worked in Lent Rise-Furze Platt (lower Boyn Hill) Terrace

M0014916: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: stack of brickearth in Cooper's Pit

M0014917: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: section in pit worked in Almond's pit

M0014918: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: section worked in Iver Terrace

M0014921: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: Abbevillian implements from Burnham Beeches, gravels of the upper Boyn Hill Terrace

M0014922: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: view of long section in Great western Railway pit

M0014923: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: map of the Iver district showing sites of gravel-workings and lie of terraces

M0014926: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: map of the terraces in the Burnham, Buckinghamshire district showing sites of pits

M0014927: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: view of Lent Rise (Almond's) pit, Lent Rise-Furze Platt (lower Boyn Hill) Terrace

M0014928: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: section in Cooper's pit, upper Boyn Hill Terrace

M0014929: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: section in Cooper's pit, upper Boyn Hill Terrace

M0014933: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: view of Almond's pit at Lent Rise, Lent Rise-Furze Plat (lower Boyn Hill) Terrace

M0014935: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: rise from the bench to the top of the deposits of the Taplow Terrace

M0014936: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: surface, rise from Taplow Terrace to the Lent Rise-Furze Plat (lower Boyn Hill) Terrace

M0014940: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: view in Almond's (Lent rise) pit. Lent Rise-Furze Platt (lower Boyn Hill) Terrace

M0014941: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: upper part of deposits (solifluxion, etc.) exposed in section in gravel pit, Belmont Park Road

M0014942: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: section in Deverill's pit, upper Boyn Hill Terrace

M0014943: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: section in gravels in the Lent Rise-Furze Platt (lower Boyn Hill) Terrace

M0014944: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: section in gravels in the Lent Rise-Furze Platt (lower Boyn Hill) Terrace

M0014945: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: Belmont Park Road, section in gravel pit

M0014949: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: Mansion Lane gravel pit in early days of mechanical excavation

M0014954: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: stack of brickearth with some included chalk in Purser's Pit. Iver Terrace

M0014956: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: solifluxion mass in gravel, exposed in section in Purser's Pit, opened in Iver Terrace

M0014958: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: stack of brickearth with some included chalk, left standing in purser's Pit, Iver Terrace

M0014959: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: stack of brickearth in Purser's pit, Iver Terrace

M0014960: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: view showing sections and early mechanical working in Mansion Lane pit. Iver Terrace

M0014967: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: view of a long section in Mansion Lane gravel pit, worked in Iver Terrace

M0014970: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: Mansion Lane pit, Mechanical excavation in progress

M0014972: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: view of Mansion Lane gravel pit, in gravels of Iver Terrace

M0014973: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: General view of the former Western Railway pit in gravels of the Iver Terrace

M0014975: Pleistocene deposits of the Thames valley: solifluxion masses observed by J. Allen Brown in Great Western Railway pit

M0014976: Illustration of bones showing carved representations of plants used as food

M0014977: Illustration of a bone pendant used as a hunter's tally, Cave of Raymonden, Chancelade, France

M0014978: Illustration of a reindeer antler engraved with images of stags and fishes

M0014979: Representations of animals and other signs incised on cave wall at Bara Bahau, near Le Buge, France

M0014980: Map of Iver district showing the Pleistocene deposits and sites of gravel-workings

M0014981: Two leaf-shaped flint implements, Upper Paleolithic (Solutrean)

M0014983: Two photographs of an Acheulian cleaver, Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire

M0014984: Upper Paleolithic shouldered points, flint

M0014985: Illustration of flint spear-heads, bifacially worked, various localities

M0014986: Illustration of bronze arrow-heads, lance-heads, spear-heads and sockets, Larnaudian

M0014987: Map showing deposits of the Interstadial period W1/W2, between the old and new drift in the British Isles

M0014988: Map showing the New Drift glaciation of the British Isles

M0014989: Map showing archaeological and palaeonaological sites in the British Isles in the late-Glacial period

M0014990: Map showing the relationship between land and sea around the British Isles during the early post-glacial period of emergence

M0014991: Map showing approximate limits of the glaciations of the British Isles

M0014992: Map showing Europe at the time of maximum glaciation

M0014993: Illustration of a rock engraving of a man and ostriches

M0014994: Four cave paintings from Lascaux cave, Upper Palaeolithic period

M0014995: Illustrations of red ochre stones used as crayons, from Les Eyzies and Langerie, Dordogne, France

M0014996: Illustration of decorated receptacles for paint, prehistoric period

M0014997: Neolithic rock engaving depicting scythes, Norway

M0014998: Reindeer incised on small limestone slab, Magdalenian type, Upper Palaeolithic period

M0014999: Representations of animals and other signs incised in a cave wall at Bara-Bahau, near Le Buge, France

M0015000: Representations of animals and other sigs incised n cave wall at Bara-Bahau, near Le Buge, France

M0015001: Illustration of two prehistoric rock pictures or masked anthropomorphs, Southern Africa

M0015002: Table showing section of deposits in Iver Terrace at Iver, Buckinghamshire

M0015003: Section in Medway terraces.

M0015004: Head on top of 100' terrace of the Bristol Avon at Chapel Pill, Somerset

M0015005: Two views of the Bristol Avon at Shirehampton

M0015006: Three maps of the Bristol area

M0015007: Terraces of the Bristol Avon in Abbots Leigh parish, Somerset

M0015008: Terraces of the Bristol Avon at Great Bend, Chapel Pill.

M0015009: Terraces of the Bristol Avon in Abbots Leigh parish, Somerset

M0015010: Terraces of the Bristol Avon in Abbots Leigh parish

M0015011: Map showing the probable extent of land recovered from the sea in north-western Europe during the Early Post-Glacial emergence

M0015012: Map of Scotland showing the transgression of the Early Post-Glacial Sea

M0015013: Photograph of Pill harbour on backwater of Bristol Avon, Somerset

M0014982: Three photographs of an Acheulian cleaver, Furze Platt, Lent Rise

M0014982: Three photographs of an Acheulian cleaver, Furze Platt, Lent Rise

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