ABBEY HOUSE MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Mon: closed
Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Sat: 12 – 5pm
Sun: 10am – 5pm
Last admission: 4.30pm
Address
Abbey Walk
Kirkstall
Leeds
LS5 3EH
Ticket Provider
ABBEY HOUSE MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Mon: closed
Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Sat: 12 – 5pm
Sun: 10am – 5pm
Last admission: 4.30pm
Address
Abbey Walk
Kirkstall
Leeds
LS5 3EH
Ticket Provider
LEEDS ART GALLERY
Opening Hours
Mon: Closed
Tues -Sat: 10am – 5pm
Sun: 11am – 3pm
Address
The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 3AA
LEEDS CITY MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Mon: closed (11am – 5pm on bank holidays)
Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Sat & Sun: 11am – 5pm
Address
Leeds City Museum
Millennium Square
Leeds
LS2 8BH
Ticket Provider
LEEDS DISCOVERY CENTRE
Opening Hours
Visits by appointment/special event only.
Free public store tours are now available by booking in advance. Please call or email us.
Address
Leeds Discovery Centre
Off Carlisle Road
Leeds
LS10 1LB
LEEDS INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM
Opening Hours
Mon: Closed (10am – 5pm on bank holiday Mondays)
Tues – Fri: 10am – 5pm
Sat – Sun: 12 – 5pm
Last admission one hour before closing.
Address
Canal Road
Leeds
LS12 2QF
KIRKSTALL ABBEY
Opening Hours
Mon: closed (10am – 4pm on bank holidays)
Tues – Sun: 10am – 4.30pm
Last admission: 4pm
Address
Abbey Road
Kirkstall
Leeds
LS5 3EH
Ticket Provider
LOTHERTON
Opening Hours
Open Daily
Estate opens: 7.30am
Café: 9am – 5pm, hot food finishes 45 mins before
Hall: Open (Downstairs only) 10am-5pm
Wildlife World: 10am – 4pm
Estate closes: October: 7pm
November: 6pm
23 Nov – 24th Dec: 7pm
24th Dec – 28th Feb: 6pm
March: 7pm
April onwards: 8pm
Last entry 45 mins before estate closing time
TEMPLE NEWSAM
Opening Hours
THWAITE WATERMILL
Address
Thwaite Lane
Stourton
Leeds
LS10 1RP
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Skeletons: Coming Face to Face with the Past
Archaeology, CollectionsEmma Bowron, conservator for Leeds Museums and Galleries explains her work on the Skeletons: Our Buried Bones exhibition at Leeds City Museum and the story of The Dalton Parlours (AD 200 -370) skull on display.
The Dalton Parlours (AD 200 -370) skull came into conservation for the Skeletons: Our Buried Bones exhibition that is currently on at the City Museum. Dalton Parlours is a Roman villa site near Wetherby and was discovered in 1854, but was only fully excavated in 1976. We know that he is male from looking at how his skull is formed and from other specific bones in his skeleton. He lived around AD 200 to AD 370 and was buried at the Roman villa site, so he would have been a Romano-British Man.
Emma inspects the Dalton Parlours skull in the conservation studio at Leeds Discovery Centre.
The skull had been badly damaged and was in many pieces. It was quite a jigsaw puzzle to bring the pieces back together due to old repairs and just the amount of material that was present. It was like doing a two sided jigsaw with no picture to work from.
The front of the face has been badly preserved, although the back and sides are in good condition. Each piece had to be seated into position and then a conservation grade adhesive was used to attach the pieces. This adhesive can be taken down with a conservation grade solvent so is reversible. The sections then had to be supported whilst the adhesive hardened. It was all about lining up grooves made in the interior bone from blood vessels and external features.
Over the course of two weeks the skull began to take shape. There were moments when it looked as if there were not enough of the right pieces preserved. However, after a few trial runs most of the back and sides of the skull have now been reunited. Unfortunately due to the damage the skull incurred whilst in the ground the face cannot be fully reconstructed.
The Dalton Parlours skull on the left, next to an aid, before Emma worked her conservation magic.
I do not often get so up close and personal with an item but working on this type of material makes you wonder who the person was and what they did in life. Getting as much of the skull reconstructed as possible gives this person more of a sense of identity and helps us to understand him a little better. The smaller white plastic skull was used as an aid in putting the right pieces back in place.
By Emma Bowron, ACR, Conservator at Leeds Museums and Galleries.
Skeletons: Our Buried Bones is running at Leeds City Museum until7 January 2018.
Skeletons: Our Buried Bones is a collaboration between Wellcome Collection and the Museum of London, touring to Glasgow, Bristol and Leeds over 2016-2018.