Birds
Information
Date: 8 July 2014
Location: Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Category: Collections
In descending order: Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Herring Gull (Larus argentatus), Juvenile Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus), Black Headed Gull (Larus ridibundus), Guillemot (Uria aalge).
Part of the collection of items gleaned from the shoreline by visitors to the Shelter, left as gifts, mementos and markers of time spent there. These have been periodically gathered and archived to generate a narrative of Shelter use and develop a museum of ‘low archaeology’.