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A year in the life: 1896
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January |
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Pitt-Rivers excavating Martin Down |
Thompson, 1977: 127; Bowden, 1991: 138 |
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February |
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Pitt-Rivers excavating Martin Down |
Thompson, 1977: 127; Bowden, 1991: 138 |
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Pitt-Rivers establishes the Rushmore-Larmer golf links for the public |
Pitt-Rivers guide to the golf links |
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March |
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Pitt-Rivers excavating Martin Down |
Thompson, 1977: 127; Bowden, 1991: 138 |
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April |
by |
Pitt-Rivers publishes 'On a Roman tile marked with a cross found at Iwerne, Dorset' Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist 2 (1896) 111-2 |
See relevant journal |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Pitt-Rivers' 69th birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdates |
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June |
4 |
Ecclesiastical preferments |
The Times 4 June 1896 |
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September |
16 |
Pitt-Rivers carries out experimental breeding of yaks at Rushmore |
Manchester Guardian 16 September 1896 |
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November |
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December |
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RUSI museum closes and Pitt-Rivers obtains many objects from it for own collections |
King, 1997: 152-3 |
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Pitt-Rivers retires from active list of Army |
Bowden, 1991: 21-2 |
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Pitt-Rivers adds dining room to Larmer Gardens |
Thompson, 1977: 80 |
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Herbert Toms stops work as Pitt-Rivers' assistant on Cranborne Chase excavations and starts job as museum assistant, Brighton. Replaced by G. Waldo Johnson |
Bowden, 1991: 106; Thompson, 1977: 94 |
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