ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Top 10 objects from Northamptonshire

The vast majority of the 217 objects from Northamptonshire in the Pitt Rivers Museum are textiles, with a quarter being (stone) tools. Other classes that are represented by smaller amounts of objects are: Technique, Boxes, Fire, Ornaments and beads, Status, Cordage, Specimens, Vessels, Locks, Physical Anthropology, Time, and Basketry (in declining order).

Ethnographic and Archaeological split: Almost all Northamptonshire objects are ethnographic (213 out of 217).

Note: this is all the classes that have related objects in the Northamptonshire 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.