Shell collection
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Shell
Place of origin
Cyprus
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303994
Summary
Fifteen fossil sea shells from Cyprus. Case label 'This drawer contains fossil sea shells picked up 3 miles from Nicosia Cyprus on the Famagusta Road 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).