- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bronze mirror, circular, with concentric incised rings on one side. [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 11/08/2010]
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Roman
- Date collected
- By 1873
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1892
- Materials and processes
- Material Bronze Metal, Process Cast, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 114 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1892.67.140 Other numbers: 1143
- Research and responses
Note that only a tiny fraction of JW Flower items are also marked as being related to the Pitt Rivers founding collection. Whilst it is possible that they did originally form part of the founding collection, were brought from London in 1884 and then placed with the geological (or other) collections at Oxford University Museum of Natural History before eventually being transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum it seems odd that they were not all recorded as being related to the founding collection. Most are attributed to being donated by Flowers to OUMNH and being transferred from there [AP 23/07/2009]
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