Fossil hyaena skull Schenken John Gilpin about to mount

John Gilpin about to mount his horse in Cheapside

in the second a thin ragged woman (Erskine's widow) with son is being introduced to the Lord Mayor (presumably William Venables) by a chimney sweep in the Mansion House Justice Room

16th March 1980

The plate is inscribed: 'PLATE 9

View with a plaque underneath

Fossil hyaena skull Schenken John Gilpin about to mountPlate 11 from the paper 'On some fossil bones discovered in caverns in the limestone quarries of Oreston', by Joseph Whidbey with the supplementary paper 'A description of the fossil bones found in the caverns of Oreston', by William Clift, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 113 (1823), pp. 78 90. Inscribed in pencil: 'Page 13. Back part of the Skull supposed to belong to an enormous Hyaena' Fossil found at Oreston quarry, near