ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Statistics about the Pitt Rivers Museum Oxfordshire 'ethnographic' collections

Alison Petch,
Researcher 'The Other Within' project

Number of objects from each village


There were a total of 1,930 ethnographic objects in the Museum's Oxfordshire collections as at 1 February 2008.[1] These came from the following towns and villages:

 

Name of town or village

Number of objects

Abingdon

5

Adderbury

2

Ambrosden

1

Appleton with Eaton

2

Arncott

100? [2]

Balscote

2

Bampton

1

Banbury

49

Begbroke

1

Bicester

19

Britwell Salome

19

Bucknell

2

Burford

26

Cassington

1

Caversfield

13

Charlbury

6

Charney Bassett

4

Chilson

5

Chipping Norton

20

Clanfield

1

Culham

1

Deddington

1

Didcot

2

Ditchley

1

Dorchester on Thames

10

Drayton

6

Ducklington

3

Elsfield

1

Enstone

1

Ewelme

11

Eynsham

10

Faringdon

2

Finstock

2

Forest Hill with Shotover

5

Fritwell

117

Fyfield

1

Garsington

3

Great Haseley

2

Great Milton

1

Great Tew

3

Hanborough

1

Hethe

1

Horspath

3

Islip

1

Kennington

1

Kiddington

1

Kidlington

3

Kingham

9

Kirtlington

5

Launton

52

Leafield

3

Little Haseley

1

Little Wittenham

1

Littlemore

5

Long Wittenham

1

Lyneham

2

Maidensgrove

2

Marcham

1

Minster Lovell

9

Nettlebed

2

North Hinksey

3

North Leigh

1

Nuffield

4

Oxford [City or unstated smaller area] in total

929

Oxford Binsey

3

Oxford Botley

2

Oxford Cowley

13

Oxford Headington

22

Oxford Iffley

1

Oxford Jericho

2

Oxford St Ebbe's

3

Oxford Wolvercote

2

Pusey

1

Radley

1

Ramsden

2

Sandford on Thames

13

Shellingford

3

Shorthampton

2

Shutford

12

Sibford Gower

1

South Leigh

7

South Newington

3

Stanton Harcourt

6

Steeple Aston

1

Steventon

1

Stonesfield

3

Tackley

1

Taston

1

Thame

2

Upper Heyford

1

Upton

1

Wallingford

3

Wantage

13

Wendlebury

2

Weston-on-the-Green

1

Wheatley

4

Wigginton

4

Witney

10

Woodstock

1

Wytham

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note that there is some double counting in the above table as some places are listed as being from one of two (or more) places.




[1] Note that the English statistics shown at englishness-analysis-overview.html were compiled using an earlier version of the objects database and therefore probably include fewer Oxfordshire objects. This is because new objects have been donated and accessioned recently.
[2] Where there is a question mark next to a number it means that the figure is estimated because the accession book does not specify the exact number of artefacts, saying insteasd 'A large number of' or 'Some ...'