Career Archaeologist
Biography Nothing is known of this donor except he was resident in Dorchester, Oxfordshire according to accession records [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 13/02/2007] A number of items from this collection are listed and illustrated in A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections (Non-Ferrous Metals) (British Archaeological Reports, British Series, No. 230), by Arthur MacGregor and Ellen Bolick (with metal analyses by Catherine Mortimer and photographs by Nick Pollard), Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, in association with Tempvs Reparatvm (1993).
County Oxfordshire
Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source
Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology
Collected around 1914
Dates active Unknown, active 1914
Donated around 1914
English collections Skull + part of skeleton with animal bones, bronze key, coin, fibulae, rings etc. + some potsherds, from a Roman burial dug up in digging gravel near the Recreation Ground, Dorchester. No longer in Museum's collections. Transferred to Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum in 1940.
Oxford Uni Education Unknown
Oxford based Yes
English collection size 0