The following places are accessioned in the founding collection from Sussex but do not appear to be related to his named excavations (such as Cissbury) or to have been collected in 1867 when he was fieldwalking on the South Downs. They may have been collected during this period, but not have been dated, or he might have obtained them at some other point between 1867 and 1878, when he worked regularly in Sussex.
Beachy Head
Pitt Rivers appears to have visited Beachy Head on 2 October 1867 and 8 October 1869 if the dates given to some of the following artefacts are correct. The items collected in 1867 are listed in his fieldwalking / hill fort survey webpage. It is not known to have definitely been in Sussex in October 1869 according to Bowden and Thompson, his biographers. According to Thompson (1977: 124) he spent six months of the year working on Thames gravel material, and also in Bangor in North Wales digging some barrows whilst staying with a relative. This does not mean that he was not in Sussex however, just that it has not been noted by these sources. Beachy Head is a chalk headland close to Eastbourne, East Sussex. The cliff here is the highest chalk sea cliff in Britain, rising over 500 feet.
1. 1884.123.453 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.123.1-911 Neolithic and Mesolithic Madelainean etc - Large skew semi-oval white patinated scraper with straight butt (c 4 3/4) Beachy Head Sussex ALF [Augustus Lane Fox, as he was then] [Drawing]
2. 1884.123.481 Tortoise-shaped block of flaked-out flint, white patinated (calc.) flaked all over (7 1/2) Beachy Head 8.10.69 ALF Surface [Drawing]
3. 1884.123.482 Similar block [to 1884.123.481], very high backed, bluish-white patina (8) Beachy Head Oct 1869 ALF Surface [Drawing]
4. 1884.123.483 Roughly globular block of greyish flint flaked to an undulating edge, battered (c 7) Beachy Head Oct 1869 ALF Surface [Drawing]
5. 1884.125.95 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.125.1-415 Neolithic implements 1884.125.1 - Semi-globular flint hammer stone (8) Beachy Head Oct 1869 ALF Surface [Drawing]
6. 1884.125.96 Small globular flint hammer stone (8) Beachy Head Oct 1869 ALF Surface [Drawing]
7. 1884.127.117 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.127.1-143 'Modern' stone etc implements Hammers Axe heads - 1884.127.107 - 143 Globular hammerstones and ?fabricators - Globular nodule of calcified flint surface (white cortex) battered on one side (6.5 7.1) Beachy Head 2.10.69 [NB could be 2.10.67] [Drawing]
8. 1884.133.137 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.133.1-235 Stone Implements Worked Flakes Scrapers - Large narrow oval grey flake with jagged outline worked on one side near one end (13) Beachy Head 8.10.69 [Drawing]
See also here
Black Cap near Lewes
Pitt Rivers was in the neighbourhood of Lewes in July 1878 when he was working at Mount Caburn and Ranscombe Camp. Black Cap is a 200 metre hilltop near East Chiltington.
1. 1884.125.309 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.125.1-415 Neolithic implements 1884.125.206 and on Neolithic ground celts (except where stated) - Edge end of a large parallel-sided out plano-convex celt, calcified right through (9 3/4) Black Cap nr Lewes July 1878 [Drawing]
Hollingbury
Only two of these items are dated, to June 1868. Pitt Rivers is not listed in Thompson, 1977: 123-4 as being in Sussex at that time, but that does not mean he wasn't. This area is now part of Brighton, it is high on a hillside in the north of the city above Patcham, a golf course is now located on part of the hillfort.
1. 1884.123.307 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.123.1-911 Neolithic and Mesolithic Madelainean etc - 16 (?17) white patinated flakes ?nodules etc Hollingbury Brighton Surface ALF 10.6.68 - Piece of bad flint, flaked, suggestive of end of an abandoned celt
2. 1884.123.308 Piece of flint with large flake scars, roughly keeled crest, ?end (edge) of large roughed out celt
3. 1884.123.309 Nodular piece of flaked (bad) flint with patch of cortex on the end
4. 1884.123.310 Flaked nodule, smooth patches of yellowish cortex in hollows
5. 1884.123.311 Suboval plano-convex flake
6. 1884.123.312 Broad plano-convex flake, upper side half flaked, half covered with cortex
7. 1884.123.313 Subcircular flat thin cortex flake
8. 1884.123.314 Kidney-shaped plano-convex flake, back half flaked half cortex covered, ?scraper (9)
9. 1884.123.315 Subtriangular plano-convex flake with cortex-covered butt, point truncated
10. 1884.123.316 Plano-convex suboval flake
11. 1884.123.317 Roughly oval flake (?no evidence of being an artefact)
12. 1884.123.318 Roughly oval plano-convex flake (7.3)
13. 1884.123.319 Plano-convex end scraper (broken across) (c 5 1/2 cm) [Drawing]
14. 1884.123.320 Long plano-convex flake with pieces of cortex on back, serrated edge (7.4) [Drawing]
15. 1884.123.321 Smaller flake with semicircular lateral projection at one end, serrated both sides (6 3/4) [Drawing]
16. 1884.123.322 Irregular semicircular flake with a bevelled edge and serrated curved edge (c 7) [Drawing]
17. 1884.123.323 Small plano-convex flake with parallel flake scars (c 4) [Drawing]
18. 1884.125.97 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.125.1-415 Neolithic implements Globular grey flint core used as a hammerstone (8) Hollingbury Brighton 10.6.68 ALF S[urface] [Drawing]
Lancing
Pitt Rivers is listed as collecting these items on the 2 July 1879. He is not listed as being in Sussex at that date in Thompson, 1977: 125. Lancing is in West Sussex.
1. 1884.35.46 Accession Book IV entry - 1884.35.1-121 - Pottery Primitive and Ancient Hand-moulded. Small rough dark grey and black pot: convex near shoulders Lancing nr Brighton [Drawing]
Additional Accession Book IV entry - Late Bronze Age III at Sussex [1884.35.46-47]
2. 1884.35.47 Small rough convex broad flat-base pot of similar wear [to 1884.35.46] Lancing near Brighton 2.7.79 ?9876 is marked 'very dim' [Drawing]
3. 1884.37.68 Accession Book IV entry - 1884.37.1-113 Pottery Ancient Wheel-made. Globular bowl or jar of grey ware (?funerary urn) Lancing nr Brighton [9T ?Sale no] [Drawing] 110/ 9680
Additional Accession Book IV entry - These Lancing pots are 1st century AD Late Iron or Early Romano-British [1884.37.68-74]
4. 1884.37.69 Footed bowl with in-sloping base, of similar ware [to 1884.37.68], containing vertebrae, shards, chalk Lancing nr Brighton [Drawing]
5. 1884.37.70 Small globular pot of very rough ware, with flared mouth (broken) Lancing nr Brighton 2.7.79 [Drawing]
6. 1884.37.71 Small globular based pot with concave shoulders and wide mouth (hole inside) Lancing nr Brighton 2.7.79 [Drawing]
7. 1884.37.72 Footed pot of good grey ware, upper part almost cylindrical, containing chalk and teeth Lancing nr Brighton 2.7.79 [Drawing]
8. 1884.37.73 Same type of pot [as 1884.37.72] Lancing nr Brighton 2.7.79
9. 1884.37.74 Glass topped box containing teeth from the above [1884.37.73]
10. 1884.46.11 Accession Book IV entry - 1884.46.1-27 Weaving - Flat bone comb with short prongs, for separating threads in weaving Lancing Sussex 2.7.79 [Drawing]
Additional Accession Book IV entry - See Excavations at Mt Caburn p9 by PR Iron Age [1884.46.11-13
11. 1884.46.12 Flat bone comb with short prongs, for separating threads in weaving, more damaged and oxidised, faint design [illegible] Lancing Sussex 2.7.79 [Drawing]
12. 1884.46.13 Flat bone comb with short prongs, for separating threads in weaving, smaller with closer teeth and hatched design Lancing Sussex 2.7.79 [Drawing]
13. 1884.123.36 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.123.1-911 Neolithic and Mesolithic Madelainean etc - Ground creamy grey celt, butt broken and edge battered (11 1/4) Lancing
14. 1884.123.37 Similar celt [to 1884.123.36], butt entire edge much broken (9.8) Lancing 2.7.79 [Drawing]
15. 1884.125.157 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.125.1-415 Neolithic implements Smaller [than 1884.125.156] cream patinated celt with more ground surface including edge (over flaking) (14 1/4) Lancing 8.7.79 [Drawing]
16. 1884.132.56 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.132.1-405 Stone Implements Flakes - Grey peltate thick flint flake ridge with basal part flaked off (8) Lancing Hill Sussex [Drawing]
17. 1884.140.623 Accession Book VIII entry - EUROPE, UK, ENGLAND. Pottery vessel found unaccessioned recently, labelled 'Lancing, Nr. Brighton 2.7.79 P.R. coll'.
Mount Harry
Close to Lewes. All of these items appear to have been collected by Ben Roberts. Nothing is known of this collector at this time.
1. 1884.123.235 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.123.1-911 Neolithic and Mesolithic Madelainean etc - Roughly flaked curved blunt point with keeled butt (?scraper and point) (11) Mt Harry Lewes Sussex Sept 1877 Ben Roberts [Drawing]
Added Accession Book VI entry - Spoiled celt [1884.123.235-238]
2. 1884.123.236 Roughed out flint ?celt with waist (12 3/4) Mt Harry Lewes Sussex Sept 1877 Ben Roberts [Drawing]
3. 1884.123.237 Ground chert celt, grey chipped edge (10 1/4), splintered Mt Harry Lewes Sussex Sept 1877 Ben Roberts
4. 1884.123.238 Accession Book VI entry - Ground chert celt, white edge broken (10) Mt Harry Lewes Sussex Sept 1877 Ben Roberts
5. 1884.125.100 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.125.1-415 Neolithic implements Tongue-shaped flaked-out celt (?broken across) (9 1/4) Mount Harry Lewes 1877 Ben Roberts [Drawing]
6. 1884.125.101 Tongue-shaped flaked-out celt, small, entire (11 3/4) Mount Harry Lewes 1877 Ben Roberts [Drawing]
7. 1884.125.103 Similar grey ?chert implement [to 1884.125.102] with expanded end, more flaked (12 1/4) Mount Harry Sept 1877 Ben Roberts [Drawing]
8. 1884.125.307 Suboval quadrilateral celt, plano-convex (9 1/4) Mount Harry Lewes Sept 1877 Ben Roberts [Drawing]
9. 1884.125.308 Subquadrangular straight-sided ground celt of which patinated ?flint sides tapering, top and edge fractured (c 12) Mount Harry Lewes Sept 1877 Ben Roberts [Drawing]
Newhaven
The first of these items appears to have been obtained by Pitt Rivers (or rather Augustus Lane Fox as he was then) on 2 September 1877. He was working nearby at Mount Caburn, near Lewes, at that period. The other items appear to have been collected by William Whitaker (1836-1925), geologist, bibliographer and a pioneer of British hydrogeology. He knew John Evans as well as Pitt Rivers. Newhaven is near Lewes in East Sussex. It is a port situated on the English Channel, near the mouth of the River Ouse. The hill fort in Newhaven is on a hill now called Castle Hill.
1. 1884.41.185 Accession Book IV entry - 1884.41.1-193 - Miscellaneous pottery - mostly 'duplicates' - Box of pottery and flakes found in interior of camp and bones from surface when excavating gravels Newhaven A Lane Fox 2.9.77
2. 1884.132.254-266 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.132.1-405 Stone Implements Flakes - Flakes A mile W of Newhaven Sussex ?W Whitaker glued onto a board with 1884.132.254-266 [Drawing]
3. 1884.132.267-297 Glass topped box containing 1884.132.267-297. 31 grey flint flakes Newhaven Sussex W Whitaker
Plumpton
These items appear to have been collected in 1878. A reference in the accession book entries refers to 'The following collection comes from an area excavated by Holleyman and Curwen and described as a Late Bronze Age site though a few Neolithic implements were found.' However, this does not square with the date of 1878, as Holleyman was not born until 1910 (see http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article389315.ece) so the reference must mean that they are from the same site. Pitt Rivers was in the Lewes area in 1878 working on Mount Caburn. Plumpton is five miles north west of Lewes, Plumpton Plain is nearby.
1. 1884.123.449 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.123.1-911 Neolithic and Mesolithic Madelainean etc - Pointed oval flake end-scraper, worked round larger end plate of cortex on upper side (5 1/4) Plumpton Plain Lewes 1870 [sic could be 1878] [Drawing]
2. 1884.125.98 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.125.1-415 Neolithic implements 1884.125.1 - Roughly flaked-out white patinated (grey patches) celt of narrow thick chisel type (13 3/4) Plumpton Plain Lewes 1878 [Drawing]
3. 1884.125.99 Roughly flaked-out white patinated (grey patches) celt of narrow thick chisel type, small tapering at top and thick (10 1/4) Plumpton Plain Lewes 1878 [Drawing]
4. 1884.125.102 Long narrow rugged partly flaked plano-convex flint pebble end scraper (12 1/2) Plumpton Plain 1878 [Drawing]
5. 1884.125.105 Suboval surface pebble flake end scraper with patch of cortex on the top (9 1/4) Plumpton Plain 1878 [Drawing]
6. 1884.125.106 Dark narrow small flake worked at the end, round edge of cortex patch (8 1/2) Plumpton Plain 1878 [Drawing]
7. 1884.125.108 Rounded subquadrangular thick plano-convex grey flake end scraper (7 3/4) Plumpton Plain 1878 [Drawing]
8. 1884.125.110 Wide round-topped grey flint end scraper of similar type [to 1884.125.109] with cortex cap (7) Plumpton Plain 1878 [Drawing]
9. 1884.125.111 Large subquadrangular end scraper with small projecting shouldered nozzle (8 3/4) Plumpton Plain 1878 [Drawing]
10. 1884.125.113 Small semi-oval straight-butted discoidal scraper (4 3/4 cm) Plumpton Plain 1878 [Drawing]
11. 1884.125.115 Large thin grey discoidal scraper (?broken on one side) (6 1/4) Plumpton Plain 1878 [Drawing]
12. 1884.125.116 Thick silver grey scraper, subquadrangular with oval top (6) Plumpton Plain 1878 [Drawing]
13. 1884.125.306 Very roughly flaked white patinated ?chert celt of narrow type (11 1/4) Plumpton Plain Lewes 1878 [Drawing]
14. 1884.132.385 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.132.1-405 Stone Implements - Long narrow suboval flake with undulating ridge and wing surface of mottled blue-grey flint (c 11.7) Plumpton Plain Lewes 1878 [Drawing]
15. 1884.133.18 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.133.1-235 Stone Implements Worked Flakes Scrapers - Suboval pointed dull white patinated flake with worked serrated edges (10.3) Plumpton Plain Lewes 1878 [Drawing]
16. 1884.133.21 Suboval thin scraper, bevelled and trimmed all round (7.1) Plumpton Plain Lewes 1878 [Drawing]
17. 1884.133.23 Irregular suboval grey flint scraper, trimmed along one side and round one end (6.5) Plumpton Plain Lewes 1878 [Drawing]
18. 1884.133.28 Large plano-convex oval grey flint scraper (sinus flaked out of one side and trimmed along edge) (8.9) Plumpton Plain 1878 [Drawing]
19. 1884.133.136 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.133.1 - 235 Stone Implements Worked Flakes Scrapers W Gallery Case 13 - Thick narrow grey plano-convex finger-shaped side scraper with cortexed back (9.5) Plumpton Plain Lewes 1878 [Drawing]
20. 1884.133.229 Narrow oval ridged endscraper with white and greyish yellow film of patination (7.2) Plumpton Plain Lewes 1878 [Drawing]
Seven Sisters
None of these items are dated which means it is impossible to say when they were obtained, or by whom. The Seven Sisters are a series of chalk cliffs between Eastbourne and Seaford.
1. 1884.123.118 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.123.1-911 Neolithic and Mesolithic Madelainean etc - 1884.123.114-127 3 partitioned tray containing flake implement from Brandon and Seven Sisters Sussex - Suboval keeled end scraper, white patinated (7.2) The Seven Sisters Sussex
Additional Accession Book VI entry - Note 1884.123.118-127 all have whity chalky patination
2. 1884.123.119 Subquadrangular longitudinally curved end scraper with curved end (6.4) Seven Sisters Sussex
3. 1884.123.120 Sub-semi-circular tortoise core scraper, worked round the curved edge (4 1/2 x 5 1/2) Seven Sisters Sussex
4. 1884.123.121 Subquadrangular end scraper of similar form to 1884.123.119, with circular scraper head (6 1/2) Seven Sisters Sussex
5. 1884.123.122 Semi-oval scraper with black ?manganic marks 3.3 x 4 base Seven Sisters Sussex
6. 1884.123.123 Accession Book VI entry - Semi-oval scraper, shallower than 1884.123.122, with black ?manganic marks 4 x 4 base Seven Sisters Sussex
7. 1884.123.124 Discoid scraper with truncated base (4.4) Seven Sisters Sussex
8. 1884.123.125 Similar larger scraper [to 1884.123.124], thickest on the left side with toothed edge (5) Seven Sisters Sussex
9. 1884.123.126 Oval discoidal scraper, more or less worked all round, with steep secondary working at the thicker end (6) Seven Sisters Sussex
10.1884.123.127 Large long narrow thick subtriangular end scraper (10) Seven Sisters Sussex
11. 1884.133.228 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.133.1-235 Stone Implements Worked Flakes Scrapers - Suboval white patinated plano-convex wedge flake scraper, worked along rounded end and one side (c 7) The Seven Sisters Sussex [Drawing]
South Downs unprovenanced
This item is undated which means it is impossible to say when it was obtained, or by whom. It could have been collected on Pitt Rivers' fieldworking and survey of Sussex hillforts in 1867.
1. 1884.123.234 Accession Book VI entry - 1884.123.1-911 Neolithic and Mesolithic Madelainean etc - Roughly worked keeled edged flint backed with irregular band of cortex (c 11) S Downs Sussex Surface
Worthing
These items appear to have been collected in 1877. Indeed a reference in one of the entries to the following book reference dates it further:
The three palstaves [1884.119.110-112] with this provenance are presumably form the hoard contained within a pot of parts of a pot which was discovered in February 1877 at this place see J. Evans Ancient British Implements London 1881: 87, 423, 467 (3 other refs given) Palstave with one loop butt damaged at one corner flanges start about 27 mm below butt slightly convex or nearly straight in side view blade nearly straight in outline above concave expansion at cutting edge faces plain Upper part of sides almost flat with traces of longitudinal casting seam lower part slightly bevelled in cross section. Cutting edge sharpened damaged towards one end surfaces fairly well preserved. [Allen, Britton and Coghlan, Occasional Paper on Techology, 10 PRM: 179]
Worthing is in West Sussex, between Brighton and Bognor Regis.
1. 1884.119.110 Accession Book V entry - 1884.119.1-631 Implements Copper Bronze (copper specified when known) Celts - Long narrow small green celt of similar type to above [1884.119.109], with short flanged pits rounded and more expanded, edge side loop 40 Acre field nr Worthing 1877 [Drawings]
2. 1884.119.111 Long narrow small green celt of similar type to above [1884.119.109] with short flanged pits, rounded and more expanded edge, side loop 40 Acre field nr Worthing 1877
1884.119.112 Similar celt [to 1884.119.111] with straighter edge 40 Acre field nr Worthing 1877
3. 1884.119.632 Added Accession Book V entry - Part of base and lower wall of pot, made of four joining sherds, in which 40 bronze axes were found in 1897 Cf 1884.119.110-2 near Worthing Sussex
Items not yet located and accessioned into the Pitt Rivers Museum but likely to be in the collections from Sussex from the founding collection:
Black book entry - 1385 Molar of Elephas Antiquus or Primigenius Worthing Sussex (3810)
Ornamented pottery from Highdown Hill. Blue book entry - 47 Tray contg fragments of pottery High Down Camp Sussex (See Archaeologia II 42) or 47a Tray contg fragments (2) of ornamented pottery Highdown pits Sussex
Delivery Catalogue I entry - 8 pieces of pottery found at Lewes 443/ 12191 Case 49 215
Blue book entry - Implements ... Knife Sussex Hills (1545)
Blue book entry - 1367 Flint ball and numerous scrapers from the Seven Sisters Sussex (1869) (2208)
'Green book' entry - South Kensington Receipts,18 March 1881 - The objects numbered 1 to 292 [?that is, numbers assigned by Pitt Rivers] .... 159 Jar earthenware 17th cent Ford Sussex [159/ 12099]
'Green book' entry - South Kensington Receipts, 12 July 1881 - Specimens as per lists attached - Marked 'A' are part of those removed from the Collection on 8 July 1881. 2 models of Cissbury shafts in cases
'Green book' entry - South Kensington Receipts, 12 July 1881 - Specimens as per lists attached - Marked 'A' are part of those removed from the Collection on 8 July 1881. Cissbury implements
Other unprovenanced geographically (apart from Sussex Downs) flakes and stone tools.