ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Top 10 objects from Bedfordshire

There is a total of 1,749 objects from Bedfordshire in the Pitt Rivers Museum. Collections from Bedfordshire in the Museum are dominated by (stone) tools, no other type of object comes close.

Class of object

Number of objects

Position

% of total county collection

Tools [definite]

1,641

1

93.8

Specimens

79

2

4.5

Geology

74

3

4.2

Ornaments & beads

69

4

3.9

Technique

30

5

1.7

Fire

18

6

1

Boxes

15

7

0.8

Animalia

7

8

0.4

Tools or weapons

7

8

0.4

Clothing

5

9

0.2

Basketry

4

10

0.2

Textiles

4

10

0.2

Lighting

3



Plant

2



Trade

2



Ceremonial

1



Medicine

1



Pictures

1



Religious artefacts

1



Transport

1



Weapons

1



Ethnographic and Archaeological split: 92.5 per cent of the Bedfordshire collections are archaeological.

Note: this is all the classes that have related objects in the Bedfordshire collections

You are reminded that all artefacts can be classified as more than one type or class, a drinking cup is classified as both a Vessel and Food.