John Robert Mortimer, Driffield, Yorkshire, UK
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John Robert Mortimer (1825-1911) was a nineteenth-century pioneer of modern British archaeology. This plaque, on the museum that he founded, was placed on the 100th anniversary of his death.
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Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/10/2011
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John Robert Mortimer (1825-1911) was a nineteenth-century pioneer of modern British archaeology.
Inspired by the 1851 Great Exhibition, John Mortimer, along with his brother John, and financed by his own agricultural trading business (which ultimately went bankrupt) he excavated 350 Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age barrows, together with a handful of Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in East Yorkshire, mostly within a 10 mile radius of Fimber.
He amassed a collection of cultural material which was displayed, from 1878 until his death in 1911, in the Mortimer museum. After his death it was moved to the City of Hull, where it now forms the nucleus of the East Riding Museum of Archaeology.
This plaque was unveiled On 19 August 2011, the 100th anniversary of John Robert Mortimer’s death
The plaque reads
JOHN ROBERT MORTIMER 1825-1911
pioneering archaeologist erected this building to house
THE MORTIMER MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND GEOLOGY
1878-1918
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