Rock collection
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile and rock samples
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1300378
Summary
A bag containing rock specimens with a historic label which reads: 529.B., 1 piece rock, Limestone. 529.C., 1 piece red rock which is found splashed all over the limestone. Why? (Added later = Vein quartz) 529D. 5 pieces Crystal = Calcite. Karuskee Hill, Near Sheikh, British Somaliland. 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).