- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bronze axe
- Geographical reference
- Bretagne Côtes-d'Armor Lamballe Port de Dahouet
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Bronze Age
- Date collected
- 1879
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Bronze Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Cast, Process Forged (Metal)
- Dimensions
- Length x Width x Height: max 119 x 40 x 37 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.119.149 PR no.: 32/ 9294 or 32b/ 9294
- Research and responses
This object could have been obtained by Pitt Rivers in between his visits to Brittany in October - November 1878 and March - April 1879. He stayed in France during the intervening winter. [Bowden, 1991: 86-7][Chapman, 1981: 410-2] [Thompson, 1977: 61]. The delivery catalogue entry is a little confusing. No other entries have two fraction numbers and only one [9294] is given in the accession book. 12191 entries are listed in green book pages 172 - 183.There are no objects with the fraction number 9294 in the green book. If my theory about fraction numbers is correct [see Introduction to the Lt-Genl PR catalogue] then objects with this number should have associated dates of between March and May 1879 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
1884.119.149
Bronze axe
1884.119.149
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