These are the journeys that Pitt-Rivers is known to have carried out. For the most part evidence is taken either from his biographies or from references in the catalogue of the second collection or other artefactual documentation:
|
Dates |
Place travelled to |
Reason for travel |
|
1852 |
France |
Professional [Army] |
|
1852 |
Belgium |
Professional [Army] |
|
1852 |
Piedmont, Italy |
Professional [Army] |
|
1854 |
Malta |
Professional [Army] |
|
1854 |
Crimea / Bulgaria |
Professional [Army] |
|
1855-1857 |
Malta |
Professional [Army] |
|
?1858 |
?Innsbruck, Austria |
Holiday (based upon reported collecting) |
|
1861-1862 |
Canada |
Professional [Army] |
|
1862-1866 |
Ireland |
Professional [Army] |
|
?1870 |
?Normandy, France |
?Holiday [based on collecting] |
|
?1870 |
?Jersey |
?Holiday [based on collecting] |
|
?1871 |
Northern France |
?Holiday [based on collecting] |
|
?1877 |
France |
?Holiday [based on collecting] |
|
1878 |
Brittany, France |
Archaeological survey [also based on collecting] |
|
1879 |
Brittany, France |
Archaeological survey |
|
1879 |
Germany, Denmark and Sweden |
|
|
1881 |
Egypt |
Travel with small amount of |
|
1882 |
Belgium, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania |
Holiday [based upon reported collecting] |
|
1883 |
Scotland |
Inspectorate [Based on collecting] |
|
?1883 |
?France |
Holiday (based upon reported collecting) |
|
1885 |
Scotland |
Holiday, met up with Tylors [see University of California diaries of Tylor] and also Inspectorate |
|
?1886 |
Carlsbad, Austria |
?Holiday [based on collecting] |
|
1886 |
Scotland |
Inspectorate [based on collecting etc] |
|
?1888 |
Holland? |
?Holiday [based on collecting] |
|
1892 |
Clermont Ferrand and Paris, France |
Holiday / Convalescence. [based on collecting] |
He is also known to have travelled to Rome in Italy at some point [objects from there specifically said to have been collected by him are listed in 1896 see Add.9455vol4_p1319 /2. See here to find a list of the detailed journeys he made as Inspector of Ancient Monuments
AP revised May 2013
