Cecil Brent

Career Archaeologist / Antiquarian / Writer

Biography Little is known of this collector except he was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. The items come from Kent and a Cecil Brent is listed in the 1901 census as being aged 73, born in Canterbury, Kent, and retired from the civil service Somerset [sic] who might be the same person, he was then living in Bromley. He seems to be the person mentioned in the Bristol Mercury 16.12.1876 issue 4524 who sent a collection of bronze celts and roman artefacts to the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society's soiree in Clifton 13.12.1876. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 07/12/2006]

Biography References A Macgregor and E Bolick 'A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections' BAR 230 1993 / http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/Vol.013%20-%201880/page%20v%20+%20vi%20%20contents.htm

Clubs & Societies Society of Antiquaries / British Archaeological Association

County Kent

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology

Collected around 1863

Dates active Unknown, active 1868 possibly ?1828-?

Donated around 1884

Owned 1863-1868?

English collections Metal axe

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based No

English collection size 1

Connections Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers