- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ceramic base sherd
- Long description
- Base sherd of medium grained ceramic with mineral temper. [CG [Excav. PR] 04/04/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England East Sussex Lewes Glynde Mount Caburn "2nd rampart"
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Iron Age
- Date collected
- 1877 Sept
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 19 mm, Width: max 36 mm, Length: max 39 mm, Weight 17 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.137.22.13 PR no.: ? 250/ 12099 - 285/ 12099
- Research and responses
Note that there are a number of entries in Delivery Catalogue II pages 331 - 334 and 336 - 337 under the title 'Collection from Mount Caburn' which are listed and in many cases given a related fraction number, none of which match fraction numbers given in the accession books. It seems probable that some of the unmatched Mount Caburn objects could be matched to these delivery catalogue entries but until each object is found and given a detailed computerised catalogue entry it will not be possible to match further. Details of the entries on pages 331-4 are listed in PRM possibles file[AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Pitt Rivers published his two seasons work at Mount Caburn in the journal Archaeologia in 1881. Full reference: Pitt Rivers, A H L Fox. 1881. Excavations at Mount Caburn Camp, near Lewes, conducted in 1877 and 1878. Archaeologia 46: 423 - 495. [MN 15/06/2009]
The fortifications at Mount Caburn [TQ 4443 0891] are recorded on the English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record under monument no. 405932. The record is accessible online, see http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=405932. [MN 15/06/2009]
- Associated publications
- Lane Fox, A. 1881. Excavations at Mount Caburn camp near Lewes, conducted in 1877 and 1878. Archaeologia 46: 423-495. [Dan Hicks 03/09/2013]
1884.137.22.13
Ceramic base sherd
1884.137.22.13
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.