Rock collection
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile and rock samples
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1300377
Summary
A bag containing rock specimens with a historic label which reads: 233.B.1, 3 pieces of sandstone, Mirga Oasis, Libyan Desert. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Egerton collection devised to the National Trust in 1960 by Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874-1958).