Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

20 and on

Pitt-Rivers excavating Bokerly Dyke and Woodyates

Thompson, 1977: 126

February

1-27

Pitt-Rivers excavating Bokerly Dyke and Woodyates

Thompson, 1977: 126

March

No day

Pitt-Rivers visiting Chedworth Roman Villa as Inspector of Ancient Monuments

National Archives workbook 39/11 page 37

April

12, 14 or 15

Pitt-Rivers' 63rd birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate

April

15 and on

Pitt-Rivers excavating Bokerly Dyke and Woodyates

Thompson, 1977: 126

April

23

Pitt-Rivers elected to Council of Society of Antiquaries

The Times 24 April 1890

May

1-22

Pitt-Rivers excavating Bokerly Dyke and Woodyates

Thompson, 1977: 126

May

22

First child of Pitt-Rivers' heir, Alexander, born, George Henry Pitt-Rivers

See here

See below for more information

May

28

Pitt-Rivers writes encouraging archaeological investigation in England

The Times 2 June 1890

June

2

Pitt-Rivers attends dinner of Grenadier Guards Club in London. Prince of Wales present

Morning Post 5 June 1890 p. 3

June

2

Pitt-Rivers publishes letter in Times 2 June 1890 for establishment of English Exploration Fund

NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS., British Architect, 33:23 (1890:June 6) p.401-2

June

12

Pitt-Rivers exhibits models of crosses at Society of Antiquaries. Announcement of talk by Pitt-Rivers on crosses at Society

Thompson, 1977: 126; The Times 12 June 1890

June

13

Pitt-Rivers attends State Concert at Buckingham Palace

The Times 14 June 1890

July

4

Pitt-Rivers writes on preserving British antiquities from Rushmore

The Times 15 July 1890

July

14

Pitt-Rivers attends garden party at Marlborough House, Queen Victoria present

Morning Post 15 July 1890 p. 5

July

28 - August [unknown]

Pitt-Rivers excavating Wansdyke, Wiltshire

Thompson, 1977: 126; Notes of the Month., Antiquary, 22 (1890:Sept.) p.89

July

30 - 1 August

Pitt-Rivers attends meeting of Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, gives field talk on excavations at Wansdyke on 1 August

Proceedings and Publications of Archaeological Societies., Antiquary, 22 (1890:Sept.) p.126

August

25

Announcement of forthcoming British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at Leeds. Pitt-Rivers to speak about recent excavations

The Times 25 August 1890

September

7 or 8

Pitt-Rivers visiting Wales as Inspector of Ancient Monuments

National Archives workbook 39/13 and 39/4 and 39/14

It is possible that this tour was done by P-R's assistant rather than himself

September

no date

Pitt-Rivers congratulated on recovering from an unspecified illness which has prevented him working

L651 Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers papers

October

November

December

No month

No day

Pitt-Rivers gives up salary but keeps honorary post of Inspector

Thompson, 1977: 126

No month

No day

Balfour appointed as Curator of Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford [PRM]

PRM annual reports

No month

No day

Court of the PRM open to public

Cousins, 1993: 10

No month

No day

Pitt-Rivers publishes King Johns House, Tollard Royal, Wlts Rushmore: privately printed; 'On ancient monuments and the development of the celtic cross in Scotland' PSAL 13 (1890) 174-81; 'Inaugral address on the excavations at Rotherley, Woodcuts and Bokerly Dyke to the Wiltshire Archaeological Society' Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 25 (18909) 283-311; 'Excavations in Bokerly and Wansdyke and their bearing on the Roman occupation of Britain' Transactions of the Lancaster and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 1890

See relevant journals

No month

No day

Pitt-Rivers elected President of Wiltshire Archaeological Society

Gray, 1905: xxxiv

No month

No day

Temple of Vesta erected in Rushmore to commemorate birth of Pitt-Rivers' eldest son's son

Gray, 1905: xxxiv

According to here George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers was born on 22 May 1890, he was Pitt-Rivers heir after his father Augustus. He would go on to be influential in the final years of Farnham Museum. However, he was not Pitt-Rivers' eldest grandchild, or even oldest grandson as Alice Fox-Pitt had produced two female children in 1885 and 1886 and a grandson in 1888 with John Lubbock

No month

No day

W.S. Tomkin stops work as Pitt-Rivers' assistant, Charles Flower starts work as Pitt-Rivers' assistant on Cranborne Chase excavations

Bowden, 1991: 106