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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

REVEALED: Shells from captain cook s final voyage saved from skip | Vintage Vibes

The shell collection on display
Shell experts have helped identify and catalogue the collection. Photograph: Phil Wilkinson/English Heritage

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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