Penannular silver armlet with incised decoration. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 4/10/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Penannular silver armlet with incised decoration. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 4/10/2005]
Geographical reference: Ireland, Republic of
Europe > Northern Europe > Ireland, Republic of; "Ireland": ie Ireland or Northern Ireland (UK)
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Viking
Date collected: By 1874
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Silver Metal, Process Incised
Dimensions: Diameter: max 79 mm, Width: max 18 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.78.51 Other numbers: 18/1662
Research and responses: This object was examined by Dr Eleanor Standley, Ashmolean Museum, who advised that this armlet is Viking and not Anglo-Saxon. [AS 01/09/2010]
Pitt Rivers was in Ireland [serving in the Army] from 1862-66, this object may have been obtained during this period [Bowden, 1991: 60-4] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
The Bodleian contains microfilm of Sotheby's catalogues that have been annotated with names of various purchasers; the name Wareham frequently appears as such in catalogues of the 1860's and 1870's, and may be the same person [RTS 7/5/2004].

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