Record number JS128         Number of items           Identification           Simple name fossil         Full name rhino skull         Other name extinct rhinoceros         Named collection West Runton rhino         Classified name Mammalia & Perissodactyla & Rhinocerotidae & Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis (?)             System Linnaean             Status provisional             Currency               Authority3           Authority           Brief description Fossil, rhino skull (extinct rhinoceros, Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis?); near complete skull; in situ find from the early Middle Pleistocene deposits, Cromer Forest-bed Formation (Runton Member, West Runton Freshwater Bed, bed d) of Wes t Runton beach, 251m east of Woman Hithe datum, West Runton, Norfolk, UK         Description           Form cranium         Field collection           Place & & West Runton & Norfolk & UK             Site name West Runton beach                 Note4 251 m east of Woman Hithe datum             Locality number               Coordinates geocoordinates : 52°56'25.88"N, 1°15'17.99"E             Relative position               Stratigraphy rock : Cromer Forest-bed Formation & Runton Member & West Runton Freshwater Bed & bed d (top)             Stratigraphy stage : Cromerian             Stratigraphy age : Pleistocene & early Middle Pleistocene             Stratigraphy                   Note4               Note3           Method in situ find         Person finder : Stewart, Jonathan         Person excavator : Warren, Martin         Date 27.1.2015         Collection number           Permanent location Norwich Castle Museum : 2015         Note donated to NMS collection (with regret)         Recorder MRW : 15.11.2017         Description           Completeness           Condition           Part:dimen:reading : :         Part:aspect:desc           Conservation           Method preparation         Person conservator : Stewart, Jonathan         Date 10.2017 = 2018         Corporate body : Norfolk Museums Service             Address Shirehall, Market Avenue, Norwich         Note Preparation stopped when JS stopped attending at a point where it needed to be turned over using spcielist treatment         Reference number           Photography           Method           Person photographer :         Date           Photograph number           Reference number               Type3 digitised image         Process           Type           Method           Person :         Date           Note           Reference number           Documentation group           Link jswestrunton.html         Documentation group           Link           Class           Documentation           Reference number http://www.northfolk.org.uk/geology/west_runton_rhino.html         Reference number NWHCM :             Note3 not online, possibly still not accessioned 3.2023         Note           Notes The find was removed in a plaster jacket to Chesterfield Lodge and remained there until moved to the Norwich Castle Museum Study Centre (Shirehall) in October 2015. There it remained until the preparation began, undertaken by Jonathan St ewart and Martin Warren on two occasions under the supervision of David Waterhouse. Waterhouse asked if MRW would stop attending so that DW could tutor JS alone. Jon Stewart stopped attending due to lack of supervision by DW. Work on the skull has not progressed to my knowledge to the present day (7.5.2022). The preparation of the underside (as preserved in the ground) was able to confirm that a fair amount of the skull was present, including part of the eye socket and nasal septu m, partial cranium and toothrows.