Important collection rediscovered during house-clearing includes numerous rare species
An internationally important collection of shells, including specimens from Captain Cook’s final voyage, has been rediscovered 40 years after it was thought to have been thrown into a skip.
More than 200 shells have been returned to English Heritage, which will put some of them on display in Northumberland this week.
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