ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Top 10 objects from Greater Manchester

There are a total of 36 objects from Greater Manchester two-thirds of which are tools or tools and weapons and nearly half of which are related to fire. The remaining categories are tools and weapons, geology, specimens, food, clothing, boxes, dwelling, measurement, religious artefacts, textiles, time, toys and games, transport, weapons and writing (given in descending order).

Ethnographic and Archaeological split: 75 per cent of the collections from Greater Manchester are archaeological

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