Benjamin Harrison

Career Archaeologist / Trader

Biography Grocer and archaeologist who worked in Kent, he found many stone tools and eoliths [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 26/01/2007]

Biography References http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28192111%291%3A21%3C168%3A1BHBD1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ightham / http://www.ightham.org/about_ightham.htm / http://www.bag.org.uk/jan99/medway1.htm / http://www.clarku.edu/ » piltdown/map_prim_suspects/ABBOTT/Abbot_defense/alfred_s_kennard.html

Clubs & Societies British Association for the Advancement of Science / Local committee for BAAS [secretary] / Geological Society

County Kent

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology

Collected around 1921

Dates active 1837-1921

Donated around 1946

English collections Stone tools

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 189

Connections Henry Balfour / Edward Burnett Tylor / Frederick Fawcett / Alfred Schwartz Barnes / William G. Wallace / Anna Tylor / John Lubbock / Prestwich / Committee of the British Association / Committee of the Council of the British Association / Council of the British Association / Robert Ranulph Marett