Rural Museum poster
Pitt Rivers opened a Museum at Farnham on Cranborne Chase in about 1885. This was a converted farmhouse, which had formerly been a school for gypsies. Here he housed and displayed both the finds that he had excavated himself together with the other diverse collections that he had amassed. The Museum was open every day, free of charge and was visited by thousands of people each year.
 
Other items in the Pitt Rivers collection
Antiquities collection
Ethnography collection
Excavation – Wor Barrow under excavation
Excavations on Cranborne Chase
Handley Hill Burials
Iwerne: A Roman villa
King John’s House: A Royal hunting lodge
Model of Pentre Ifan Cromlech, Pembrokeshire
Pitt Rivers craniometer
Portrait of Lt. General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900)
Protection of Ancient Monuments
Rotherley
Rural Museum poster
South Lodge Settlement
The Larmer Grounds: A Victorian theme park
Woodcuts Model
Wor Barrow: 'The first long barrow scientifically excavated'.

Wiltshire Council

Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum
The King's House, 65 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire
Tel: 01722 332151
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