Dates

Archaeological excavations undertaken by Pitt Rivers

No. Objects in PRM

Object type

1862 - 1866

Archaeological work whilst based at Cork, Ireland

See Oghams

1865

Roovesmore Fort, Ireland surveyed

1866

London Wall

171

21 Roman pottery sherds, 17 Roman or Medieval shoe soles, bone skates, tweezers, clay pipes, animal bones, human skeletal remains, metal implements.

1866-1867

Sussex hillforts survey

See on

1867

Yorkshire Wolds, with Greenwell, April and October

141

Neolithic stone tools

(106 from Ganton, 14 from Willerby, 1 from Folkton)

1867

Cissbury excavations, Sussex, September

3

Neolithic stone tools

1868

Cissbury excavations, Sussex, January

6

Neolithic stone tools

1868

Fieldwalking in Oxfordshire, April and Thanet, Kent, September

75

Ditchley Park 75 stone tools

1868

Holyhead Ty Mawr

1868-1869

Callow Hill, Oxon. April 1868, January 1869

16

10 Roman pottery sherds, 4 flint scrapers, 1 spindle whorl, stone nodule

1869

Acton, Thames gravel deposits

56

Palaeolithic and Neolithic stone tools

1869

Penrhyn, Bangor, North Wales 2 cairns

11

Urn of coarse red pottery, with alternate grooved and string-marked rings and some pottery sherds

1869

Stonehenge fieldwalking

14

Neolithic stone flakes

1869?

Hopes Nose, Torbay?

7

6 stone flakes and 1 cast of a flake

1869

Field walking Glos. August

1870

Maiden Bower, Bedfordshire, January

31

Neolithic stone tools

1870

Dorchester Dykes, Oxfordshire

23

5 pottery sherds, 18 flint implements

1871

?Somerset, Worlebury, April

17

Neolithic stone tools

1872

Dyke Road, Black Burgh, Brighton tumulus,

64

17 Neolithic pottery sherds and 47 flint flakes

1875

Sussex hillforts

1875

Cissbury excavations, Sussex, April, June-September

c.129

Animal bones and teeth (number unknown), grey pottery sherds (number unknown), 2 Neolithic stone axes, Neolithic scraper, Wax model of a narrow arrowhead

1876

Seaford, Sussex

c.103

Pottery vessel (Roman?), pottery sherds, horse shoe, bone fragments and bits of charcoal.

1876

?Barton Cliff Lymington Hampshire

3

Palaeolithic stone tools

1874 - 1877

Guildford, Surrey barrows, Postford Farm etc.

Postford Farm: 66 Neolithic stone tools

Merrow Down: Anglo-Saxon? iron blade, 2 stone scrapers

Warren Farm, St Katherine's Hill: 67 stone tools

1877

Mount Caburn & Ranscombe, Lewes, Sussex September-October

c.1904*

1633 pottery sherds (mostly Iron Age, but at least 62 are Medieval) 1 Roman? pottery vessel, 91 Iron Age stone tools, 63 pieces of daub with wattle impressions, charcoal, 78 wood fragments, 2 boar tusks, 5 iron knives, 3 Iron Age coins, bone and antler fragments, iron slag.

1877

Ranscombe, Lewes, Sussex September-October

c.533

An estimated 483 pottery sherds and 50 stone flakes, Roman and Iron Age.

1877

Plumpton Plain?

20

Neolithic and Bronze Age stone tools.

1877

Sigwell, Somerset with Rolleston

1877

Mount Caburn, Lewes, Sussex

See Mt Caburn entry above

See Mt Caburn entry above

1877

Hampton Court Canoe

1

1884.54.40 – probably a reconstruction of the canoe

1878

Mount Caburn & Ranscombe, Lewes, Sussex, July

See Mt Caburn entry above

See Mt Caburn entry above

1878

Caesar’s Camp, Folkestone, Kent, June-July

630

Neolithic: 15 pottery sherds, 4 flakes

Medieval: 610 objects, including 2 Norman cooking pot of red ware with flat base, bird bone flute, pottery sherds (unknown number, 600?), horseshoe nails, spindle whorl, lead disc, Badly battered head of man carved in chalk, Fragment of carved stone pinnacle, tile fragment, iron arrowhead, copper guilt fragments, buckle, 2 metal knives

1878

Brittany, France surveying

1879

Danewirke or Dannewerke, Denmark with Rolleston

1879

Dane’s Dyke, Yorkshire

1879

Brittany, France surveying

1880 - 1884

Barrow-digging, Rushmore [1880 with Rolleston]

1881

Cook’s tour of Egypt, Nile Valley stone tool finds

3

Palaeolithic stone tools

1881 - 1882

Winkelbury Camp / Barrow-digging on own estate

1881 - 1882

Carranty Rack, Park House, Shiftway Coppice and Sunk fence, Rushmore Park on own estate

1883 - 1890

Inspector of Monuments

1884 - 1885

Woodcuts excavations on own estate

1886 - 1887

Rotherley excavations on own estate

1888

Bokerly Dyke on own estate

1889

Bokerly Dyke and Woodyates on own estate

1889

Kings John House, Tollard Royal, own estate

1889 - 1891

Wansdyke on own estate

1890 - ?1900

Honorary Inspector of Monuments

1891 - 1893

No excavations at Cranborne Chase due to ill-health

1893

South Lodge Camp on own estate

1893

Handley Hill entrenchment on own estate

1893

Barrows 23 and 24, own estate

1893 - 1894

Wor barrow on own estate

1893 - 1894

Handley Down barrows on own estate

1894

Barrows 26 and 27 on own estate

1894

Nursery gardens, Rushmore on own estate

1895

Barrows 28 and 29 on own estate

1895 - 1896

Martin Down camp on own estate

1897

Iwerne excavations on own estate