Shell collection
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Shell
Place of origin
Cyprus
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303993
Summary
Thirty-five fossil sea shells from Cyprus. Case label 'Picked up close to the Famagusta Road 3 Miles from Nicosia, Cyprus on April 24 1938. Lord Egerton number 518B. 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).