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To whom it may concern, My name is Elliot, I am the education, community and outreach officer at Kents Cavern Prehistoric Caves in Devon. I'm currently working on a Heritage Lottery funded project to find out the location and condition of the Kents Cavern collection. In excess of 80,000 artefacts, some of which were uncovered during the excavations of William Pengelly during 1865-1880, have been excavated from the cave. After reading Pengelly's excavation journal, records show that a number of items were sent to museums all over the world. The only problem for us is that we only have record of a small number of these museums and many of them no longer exist. Over the last year, a number of museums have been in touch with me and so far we have been able to track down around 3,000 artefacts, located all over the UK and even as far away as New Zealand. If you do have any Kents Cavern items in your collections please could you send us all of the information you have about them, including the condition they are in and with pictures if possible? I apologise to those of you who may have already read this email within other mailing groups and to those of you who have already helped with this project. Thank you in advance and Merry Christmas! I look forward to hearing from you soon, Elliot Ling Education Officer Project Firestone Kents Cavern Foundation Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) No: 1154561 Kents Cavern Prehistoric Caves 01803 215136 English Riviera Global Geopark Supported by Heritage Lottery Fund Ilsham Road TORQUAY www.kents-cavern.co.uk/foundation<http://www.kents-cavern.co.uk/foundation> TQ1 2JF - UK [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + GEM list: Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=GEM + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +