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Eight-metre long Doris the Pliosaur, star of an exhibition last year, now dominates the rear hall at the museum. "Discovered in Westbury, Wiltshire in 1994, our internationally significant specimen is the world’s only example of a new species of pliosaur – Pliosaurus carpenteri" https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-museum-and-art-gallery/whats-on/pliosaurus/ .

Cotham 'Marble' was used for the larger blocks in the pair of obelisks at the entrance to Cotham Park: see Image and associated images. A panel in the Museum explains: "At the end of the Triassic period, when the sea was very shallow, clumps of algae grew in the water, forming soft rounded masses. Such clumps were dotted over the sea-bed for many miles around Bristol, and in time became hardened and changed into 'marble' (fine-grained limestone). When cut through and polished these algal masses show a pattern resembling hedgerows and trees. A small local industry developed a hundred years or more ago when quantities of the marble were obtained from excavations in the Cotham district of Bristol. It was cut into slices, polished and sold as an ornamental stone. The specimens are from Almondsbury, near Bristol."

One a pair of large Chinese vases at either end of a corridor near the entrance hall.

Looking along the wall of contemporary works. The nearest ('Girl on Liner', 1996) is by the controversial painter Rose Wylie, who seems to divide critical opinion. Art critic Brian Sewell dismissed one of her pictures as “a daub worthy of a child of four”. However, she has won several art prizes.

Suspended above one of the building's central atria, the life-size 8-metre long reconstruction of a Pliosaurus carpenteri, christened Doris after a competition to find a suitable name. (It is "an extinct genus of thalassophonean pliosaurid known from the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian stages", from the "holotype BRSMG Cd6172". No, me neither.)

The Wills Tower of Bristol University seemingly rises between those of the Cathedral, beyond the Floating Harbour.

This OS cut mark can be found on the north east face of the museum. It marks a point 56.7903m above mean sea level.

The bell at the top of the Wills Memorial Tower, University of Bristol, Park Street. Perhaps as familiar a voice in the centre of Bristol as Big Ben is in London, this mighty bell was cast by John Taylor of Loughborough in 1924. It originally weighed over eleven tons, but was trimmed down to nine and a half after tuning. That makes it the sixth heaviest in Britain. It is named Great George after a trio of Georges - tower architect Sir George Oatley, tobacco baron George Wills and monarch George V.