ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

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Somerset

Somerset

Peaks in Somerset Collections

1900s (75), 1920s (13), 1940s (130), 1960s (385)

Arch: 1900s (63) Harley, 1920s (137) FH Carr & Lawrence

Ethno: 1940s (120) Blackwood Lace Pillow, 1960s (385) Wheelwright workshop

Significant Major Donations

Year	Objects	Donor	Classes	Objects
1961	Wheelright’s tools	Mrs Griffin	Transport / Technique / Writing	370
1943	Lace Pillow	Beatrice Blackwood	Textile	117
1893, 1899, 1911, 1917	Dowsing rods, objects stuck with pins, objects from the Fox family, tally sticks, witches’s ladder, healing sapling,	Tylors	Religion, Tally, Measurement	24
1968	Amulets	Somerset Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. / Elworthy	Religion	10

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