Post-excavation archive: Correspondence from a variety of of sources including: Guildford Museum regarding the loan of artefacts for exhibition; The Corporation of London; the Urban District Council o ...

MS 2281/25

Description Post-excavation archive: Correspondence from a variety of of sources including: Guildford Museum regarding the loan of artefacts for exhibition; The Corporation of London; the Urban District Council of Coulsdon and Purley; the Illustrated London News; the Ashmolean Museum; the Royal College of Surgeons of England; and a letter from Hope-Taylor to Professor Wood-Jones of the Royal College of Surgeons regarding the skeletal evidence from the site.

Date 1948 to 1949

Collection Papers of Brian Hope-Taylor, archaeologist, Cambridge, England

Catalogue Number MS 2281/25

Category Manuscripts

Accession Number 2001/164

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/953543

Collection Hierarchy - Batch Level

Collection Level (551 24) Papers of Brian Hope-Taylor, archaeologist, Cambridge, England

> Group Level (551 24/1) Archaeological archives

>> Sub-Group Level (551 24/1/7) Farthing Down

>>> Sub-Group Level (551 24/1/7/1) Field notes, reports and correspondence.

>>>> Batch Level (MS 2281/25) Post-excavation archive: Correspondence from a variety of of sources including: Guildford Museum regarding the loan of artefacts for exhibition; The Corporation of London; the Urban District Council of Coulsdon and Purley; the Illustrated L

Category	Catalogue Number	Title	Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 004170	MS2281/25. Letter from Enid Dance, Guildford Museum and Muniment Room. Accompanies list of finds loaned by Hope-Taylor for the purposes of an exhibition on Farthing Down. 2 of 4 sides.	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 004171	MS2281/25. List of material loaned by Hope-taylor to Guildford Museum entitled 'List of Archaeological material from Farthing Down, received from Mr. Hope-Taylor, April 1949.'. 1 of 6 sides.	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 004172	MS2281/25. List entitled 'Saxon Material from East Surrey in the Guildford Museum'. Accompanied by list of material loaned by Hope-taylor to the muesum. 1 of 6 sides.	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 004160	MS2281/25. Letter from W.J. Rees of the Mollusca Section, British Museum regarding the identification of a cowrie shell from Farthing Down. Dated 24th octorber 1949.	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 004161	MS2281/25. Letter from the eminent numismatist Harold Mattingly of the Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum, regarding the identification of a coin from Farthing Down. Dated 5.4.48.	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 004162	MS2281/25. Letter from J.D. Macdonald, Curator of Birds, British Museum, regarding the identification of the wing bones of a goose from Farthing Down. Dated 27th August 1949.	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 004163	MS2281/25. Draft of letter from Hope-taylor to Professor Wood-Jones, Royal College of Surgeons of England, intended to accompany human remains sent for identification. 1 of 6 sides.	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 004164	MS2281/25. Draft of letter from Hope-taylor to Professor Wood-Jones, Royal College of Surgeons of England, intended to accompany human remains sent for identification. 2 of 6 sides.	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 004165	MS2281/25. Draft of letter from Hope-taylor to Professor Wood-Jones, Royal College of Surgeons of England, intended to accompany human remains sent for identification. 3 of 6 sides.	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 004166	MS2281/25. Draft of letter from Hope-taylor to Professor Wood-Jones, Royal College of Surgeons of England, intended to accompany human remains sent for identification. 4 of 6 sides.	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 004167	MS2281/25. Draft of letter from Hope-taylor to Professor Wood-Jones, Royal College of Surgeons of England, intended to accompany human remains sent for identification. 4 of 6 sides.	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 004168	MS2281/25. Draft of letter from Hope-taylor to Professor Wood-Jones, Royal College of Surgeons of England, intended to accompany human remains sent for identification. 6 of 6 sides.	Item Level
On-line Digital Images	DP 004169	MS2281/25. Official receipt from Guildford Museum acknowledging temporary loan of material from Hope-Taylor for exhibition. Dated 25 April 1949. Accompanied by a letter and list of finds. I of 4 sides.	Item Level

Post-excavation archive: Correspondence from a variety of of sources including: Guildford Museum regarding the loan of artefacts for exhibition; The Corporation of London; the Urban District Council o ...

MS 2281/25

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