ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Top 10 objects from Gloucestershire

There is a total of 219 objects from Gloucestershire, which clothing and death and religion related objects dominate:

Class of object

Number of objects

Position

Clothing

70

1

Religious artefacts

63

2

Death

61

3

Tools [definite]

58

4

Lighting

36

5

Boxes

19

6

Weapons

19

6

Fire

16

7

Technique

9

8

Textile

7

9

Music

6

10

Trade

6

10

Writing

6

10

Locks

5

Children

4

Currency

4

Medicine

4

Reproductions

4

Tools or weapons

4

Vessels

4

Food

3

Physical Anthropology

3

Transport

3

Agriculture

2

Animal Gear

2

Dance

2

Measurement

2

Models

2

Specimens

2

Bags

1

Ornaments & beads

1

Dwelling

1

Hunting

1

Narcotic

1

Pictures

1

Ethnographic and Archaeological split: 55 per cent of the Gloucestershire collections are archaeological

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.