Mussel shell
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
1946
Materials
Mussel shell
Measurements
105 mm (Length)6 mm (W)
Place of origin
Tatton Mere
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303901
Summary
One of two freshwater mussel shells (swan mussels) from Tatton Mere. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton from Tatton Mere 1946
Marks and inscriptions
In pen on the shell 'Tatton Mere Jan.16 1946'