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1884.119.619.4

Copper alloy furniture fitting

1884.119.619.4

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Collection type
Object
Description
Copper alloy furniture fitting
Long description
Fragment from a copper alloy fitting (possibly foot of a bed) with gilding. Inlaid leaf pattern on one surface. [CG [Excav. PR] 10/09/2013]
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Romano-British, uncertain
Date collected
By 1879 July 2
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Gilded, Process Cast, Process Forged (Metal), Process Inlaid
Dimensions
Thick: max 2 mm, Width: max 22 mm, Length: max 32 mm, Weight 5 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.119.619.4 PR no.: ?
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. Many objects in the green book on page 98 have the fraction number ?/ 9680 [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: Furniture Dwelling, Bed, Unidentified Object

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