1911.29.55

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone weight, roughly triangular in shape with hole at the narrow end. [MJD (Verve) 19/4/2016]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

England Oxfordshire Oxford Hinksey Pot Stream

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Percy Manning

PRM source Percy Manning

Date

Date collected

1905

Acquisition information

Donated: 1911

Materials and processes

Material Stone, Process Perforated

Dimensions

Length: max 185 mm, Width: max 115 mm, Depth: max 54 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1911.29.55

Research and responses

Pot Stream [grid ref. SP 500 055] is a branch of the River Thames in the parish of North Hinksey to the West of Oxford. The stream runs below Osney Island. The exact find spot for the object is unknown. For more information on the stream see:

The Landscape of West Oxford [http://www.oxfordsoftwaredocumentation.com/wowg/history_of_west_oxford_landscape.html],

and Medieval Oxford in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 4: The City of Oxford [1979] pp. 3-73 [accessible online at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22803].

[AP 17/08/2006] [MN 15/12/2008]

The finds from Pots Stream held by the Pitt Rivers Museum are recorded on the Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record [HER] under PRN 15911. [MN 16/12/2008]

Associated publications

This object was mentioned in Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Simon Thorpe. This is an unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 on the Museum's collections of Oxfordshire archaeological material including lists of sites, grid references etc [copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe]. [MJD (Verve) 7/6/2017]

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