Wooden notice board warning trespassers of guns and traps.

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden notice board warning trespassers of guns and traps.
Long description: Wooden notice board warning trespassers of guns and traps. Notice states 'TAKE NOTICE MEN TRAPS and SPRING- GUNS ARE SET ON THESE PREMISES' [MJD 1/9/2008]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Oxfordshire Deddington The Hermitage
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source George Coggins
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1909
Date collected: After 1899
Acquisition information: Donated: 27/01/1909
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Iron Metal, Material Lead Metal, Process Written, Process Sawn, Process Painted, Process Perforated, Process Forged (Metal), Process Nailed
Dimensions: Length: max 610 mm, Width: max 234 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1909.6.1
Research and responses: View of the house at http://www.deddington.org.uk/guide/visitorsguide/hermitage.html, and commentary 'we shortly come to a corner of the Market Place and to an outstanding house called the Hermitage - a name recorded in the 16th century when it was occupied by the town's guild. By the 17th century it had become a double-depth building and was given its impressive frontage in the early 18th.' [AP 29/06/2006]
George Coggins, local solicitor, lived in the house from 1899, see biographies file for further information [AP 03/01/2007]
Associated publications: Reproduced in black and white on page 7 of The Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Newsletter, no. 41 (July 2002), where it illustrates ‘Bones 'n Stones: Oxfordshire Objects’. [JC 5 7 2002]

Search terms: Firearm Weapon, Writing, Punishment and Torture, Firearm Accessory, Inscription, Trap

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