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1900.32.3

Bronze medalet used by Pitt-Rivers to mark back-filled excavations

1900.32.3

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Collection type
Object
Description
Bronze medalet used by Pitt-Rivers to mark back-filled excavations
Long description
Bronze medal used by Pitt Rivers for placing at opening of excavations. [CW 4/11/99] On one side are grouped a pick, a theodolite, a stone battle-axe and a bronze halberd, on the other "Opened by A Pitt Rivers FRS" with a space below for the date to be stamped on it.
Cultural groups
English
Person
Maker Unknown Maker
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Harold St. George Gray
Date / Period
Date made: 1800-1899
Date collected
By 1900
Acquisition information
Donated: 1900
Materials and processes
Material Bronze Metal
Object numbers
Accession number: 1900.32.3
Associated publications
Illustrated (back and front) in colour on page 8 of Pitt Rivers Museum: An Introduction, by Julia Cousins (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 2004). Caption (same page) reads: 'General Pitt Rivers' excavation "medalet". These bronze medals were made to be buried when his excavations were infilled: "to show future explorers that I have been there.' [JC 8 10 2004] Illustrated (back and front) in colour on page 46 of The Pitt Rivers Museum: A World Within, by Michael O’Hanlon (London: Scala, 2014). Caption (same page) reads: ‘30 Bronze medal of the type deposited as a record by General Pitt-Rivers before infilling his excavations. Diameter 35 mm Donated by H. St. G. Gray 1900.32.3’ [MJD (Verve) 18/2/2016]

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