Thanks & Acknowledgements
Our thanks go to:
- Ken Walton (UCL Institute of Archaeology) for providing the equipment and taking the photographs of the Bronze Axehead and the Egyptian Scarab
- Ian Carroll (UCL Institute of Archaeology) for providing access to the Bronze Axehead and the Egyptian Scarab
- Mark Carnall (UCL Grant Museum) for providing access to the Bothriolepis Fossil and consultation
- Leonie Hannan (UCL Museums & Collections) for providing the photography equipment for the Cress Seeds Visual Device and the Printing Stamp
- Andrea Fredericksen, Keith Winters and Rebecca Whiteley (UCL Art Museum) for providing access to the Printing Stamp
- Subhadra Das (UCL Teaching & Research Collections) for providing access to the Cress Seeds Visual Device
- Mandy Wise (UCL Special Collections) for providing access to the Hebrew Manuscript
Image and Video Credits
Photographs of the scarab and axehead objects © Ken Walton, courtesy of UCL Institute of Archaeology.
Additional images:
- Bothriolepis Fossil left to right CC Jakub, Hectonichus, Béchard, Arsenault, Cloutier, Kerr
- Cress Seeds Visual Device left to right CC Armin Cifuentes, Tillwe, Science Museum London
- Print of the Slade Stamp © Slade Archive Project
- Slade Stamp left to right CC Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, Scottish National Gallery, Slade School of Fine Art
- Hebrew Manuscript left to right CC Sunil Deepak, Seth Frantzman, Jennifer Moo
- Egyptian Scarab left to right CC Metropolitan Museum, The Walters Art Museum, Markh
- Bronze Axehead left to right CC Wellcome Images, Kim Støvring, Hohum
- Reconstruction of a Copper Age axe CC Bullenwächter
All other photographs licensed under Creative Commons by Isabelle Reynolds-Logue, courtesy of the relevant UCL collections (see Object Information).
Video music The Shark by Bonobo used under UK Fair Dealing policy.
Curator video licensed under Creative Commons by Isabelle Reynolds-Logue and Clemence Hermann.
Object information
Bothriolepis Fossil
Object name: Bothriolepis canadensis
Accession number: V1457
Collection: UCL Grant Museum of Zoology
Material: Stone
Dimensions: Length 120mm, Width 83mm, Depth 18mm
Cress Seeds Visual Device
Object name: Arrangement of cress seeds to illustrate the Law of Frequency and Error
Accession number: 029
Collection: UCL Galton Collection
Material: Cardboard paper and black ink in an iron frame, protected by a glass plate
Dimensions: Length 175mm, Width 83mm, Depth 2mm
Printing Stamp
Object name: Slade Stamp (unofficial name)
Accession number: N/A
Collection: UCL Art Museum
Material: Metal (unknown) mounted on wood (unknown)
Dimensions (metal plaque): Length 137mm, Width 101mm, Depth 1mm
Dimensions (wood support): Length 140mm, Width 101mm, Depth 20mm
Hebrew Manuscript
Object name: 16th century Hebrew religious manuscript from Italy
Catalogue number: MS Mocatta 2
Collection: UCL Special Collections
Material: Vellum parchment, iron-gall ink, gold leaf and gesso in a leather binding
Dimensions (including binding): Length 170mm, Width (not including spine) 124mm, Depth 63mm
Egyptian Scarab
Object name: Scarab
Accession number: EVII.80/24
Collection: UCL Institute of Archaeology
Material: Steatite with yellow glaze
Dimensions: Length 17.7mm, Width 12.8mm, Depth 7.4mm, Hole Diameter 1.9mm
Bronze Axehead
Object name: Bronze palstave or axehead
Accession number: Z49/25
Collection: UCL Institute of Archaeology
Material: Bronze
Dimensions: Length 175mm, Width 55mm, Depth 33mm
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