1887.1.408.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Glazed buff ware lamp (green and yellow mottled). [MOBB [OPS move] 2/12/2016]

Long description

Glazed ware lamp (green and yellow mottled). With shallow open dish for the wick and a saucer for catching dripping oil. The lamp is moulded in one piece. The dish has a slight depression, forming a very small lip. The stem has been broken and mended. ? 16th century. [MOBB [OPS move] 2/12/2016]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector George Augustus Rowell

PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Date / Period

Date made: 1500-1600?, uncertain

Date collected

By 1886

Acquisition information

Transferred: 1886, uncertain Found unentered: 06/2000

Materials and processes

Material Pottery, Material Lead Metal, Process Glazed, Process Thrown, Process Coiled

Dimensions

Height: max 54 mm, Diameter: max 94 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1887.1.408.2 Other numbers: RN 6 [R N 6]

Research and responses

There are several items from the Angel Inn site at Oxford in the founding collection see 1884.40.32-34, 1884.41.30. For general information on the Museum's collections of Oxfordshire archaeological material including lists of sites, grid references etc see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Simon Thorpe (unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 (copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe) [AP 13/8/99]

See Henry Taunt photograph of this site at http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/story/slide.asp?StoryUid=17&totSlides=18&slideNo=2 [AP 05/04/2006]

See also http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/high/tour/south/angel_hotel.htm which gives exact address and states that most of the Inn was demolished in 1876 to make way for the Examination Schools [AP 17/08/2006]

Search terms: Lighting, Pottery, Lamp