ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Top 10 objects from the English counties with the largest collections in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

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Top 10 objects from the English counties with the largest collections in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

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Bedfordshire

Tools [definite]

Specimens

Geology

Ornaments & beads

Technique

Fire

Boxes

Animalia / Tools or weapons

Clothing

Basketry / Textiles

Buckinghamshire

Textiles

Tools [definite]

Boxes

Ornaments & beads

Technique

Measurement

Writing

Fire

Children

Pictures

Essex

Clothing

Tools [definite]

Textiles

Technique

Specimens

Geology

Reproductions

Ornaments & beads

Children

Bags

Hampshire and Isle of Wight

Tools [definite]

Tools or weapons

Ornaments & beads / Locks / Religious artefacts

Food

Geology / Vessels

Fire / Weapons / Writing

Agriculture / Animal Gear / Lighting

Measurement

Music

Pottery

Kent

Tools [definite]

Pottery

Geology

Specimens

Writing

Measurement

Agriculture

Tools or weapons

Locks

Fire

Greater London

Tools [definite]

Toys & Games

Pottery

Technique

Reproductions

Vessels

Boxes

Writing

Weapons

Specimens

Oxfordshire

Tools [definite]

Textiles

Tools or weapons

Weapons

Boxes

Lighting

Reproductions / Toys & Games

Pottery

Technique

Music

Suffolk

Tools [definite]

Weapons

Tools or weapons

Reproductions

Technique

Specimens

Geology

Vessels

Fire

Pottery

Sussex

Pottery

Tools [definite]

Tools or weapons

Animalia

Specimens

Physical Anthropology

Death

Plant

Lighting

Dwelling

Wiltshire

Tool [definite]

Geology

Box

Vessel

Pottery

Insignia

Measurement

Scientific Apparatus / Food

Tools or weapons

Fire

England (total collections)

Tools [definite]

Pottery

Textiles

Toys & Games

Writing

Boxes

Music

Weapons

Technique

Tools or weapons

All the counties listed above have more than 1,000 objects provenanced to them in the Pitt Rivers Museum collections, these are the most sizeable provenanced collections in the English collections of the Museum.