ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Top 10 objects from Northumberland

There is a total of 85 objects from Northumberland in the Pitt Rivers Museum's collections of which the vast majority (78) are classed as musical instruments. Other classes (in descending order) are Boxes (more than a quarter of the entries), Religion, Textiles, definite Tools and Clothing, Fishing, Geology.

Ethnographic and Archaeological split: All Northumberland objects are ethnographic

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