- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Copper alloy furniture fitting or cup
- Long description
- Copper alloy circular, cylindrical furniture fitting, has an inner triangular ridge. Base incised with IIV. [CC [Excav. PR] 27/09/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Dorset Weymouth And Portland Weymouth
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector James A.S. Medhurst
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Romano-British, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1879 July 2
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Bronze Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 17 mm, Diameter: max 52 mm, Length: max 42 mm, Weight 475 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.119.617 Other numbers: 36 PR no.: 178/ 9680
- Research and responses
This object was probably among those purchased by Pitt-Rivers at a Sotheby auction on 2 July 1879, but is not listed individually in the catalogue. [Dan Hicks 22/07/2013]
Many Jordan Hill objects were collected by Medhurst and dated 2.7.79. See 1884.2.1-2. Note that there are two versions of the Green book entry, one on pages 97 and 98 and one on pages 100 to 102 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
According to http://www.weymouthmuseum.co.uk/mushistory.htm the James A.S. Medhurst collection was sold by Sotheby's in 1879, this is probably when Pitt Rivers obtained it (see Biographies for further information) [AP 08/11/2004]
- Associated publications
- Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge 1879. Catalogue of Antiquities and Works of Art including the collection of the Baron Heath...and the Musuem of Romano-British pottery and Roman personal ornaments formed by the late Mr James Medhurst of Worthing and Weymouth; comprising vessels in terra-cotta, bronze figures &c., cinerary urns, early Roman implements, beads, Roman coins...(1-2 July 1879). London: Dryden Press (Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge). I have placed a copy of this catalogue on file in the RDF for 1884.2.1 [Dan Hicks 08/07/2013]
Search terms: Dwelling, Furniture Dwelling, Unidentified Object, Building Part