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have you tried Volunteer Mary Crane’s Pitt-Rivers quiz yet? Here are the answers:
- Born in Yorkshire.
- His full rank at the end of his career was Lieutenant General.
- He fought in the Crimea.
- His first museum was in Bethnal Green, London. The famous Toy Museum is in Bethnal Green today. I wonder if it is in the same building?
- His later Museum was at Farnham, in Dorset .There is a well-known pub there today, called – The Museum.
- He inherited the Rushmore Estate, in the heart of Cranborne Chase, in 1880.
- The current Pitt-Rivers Museum is in Oxford.
- Pitt-Rivers DID use photography as part of his recording of excavations.
- Sites excavated by Pitt-Rivers:
Winkelbury; Rotherley; Woodcutts; Wor Barrow; woodyates
10. Words associated with Pitt-Rivers:
Woodyates; Woodcutts; Rushmore; Farnham; General
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