The excavation and analysis of an 18th century deposit of anatomical remains and chemical apparatus from the rear of the first Ashmolean Museum (now The Museum of the History of Science), Broad Street, Oxford.

Abstract

Focuses on the rescue excavation during a refurbishment at the Museum of History of the History of Science in Oxford, England which recovered deposits which appear to have been placed in the later 18th century. Extent of the refurbishment; Description of the potter assemblage found during the excavation; Analysis of the human bone that were found