You find a silver-rimmed skull cup on the college table - do you drink?
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You find a silver-rimmed skull cup on the college table - do you drink?
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You find a silver-rimmed skull cup on the college table - do you drink?
This episode delves into the unsettling history of a skull cup at Worcester College, Oxford, and the man who donated it. It explores the disturbing beliefs and actions of a prominent figure whose legacy is intertwined with this macabre object.
Person: George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
Date: 1946 (donation of cup)
Location: Worcester College, Oxford
Object: Silver-rimmed skull cup
Period: Early 20th Century
- A skull cup with a silver rim and stand was passed around the senior common room of Worcester College, Oxford, for decades.
- Carbon dating in 2025 estimated the skull to be 225 years old, with circumstantial evidence pointing to the Caribbean.
- The cup was donated in 1946 by George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, a decorated British officer and published anthropologist.
- Pitt-Rivers was a committed fascist who corresponded with Nazi eugenicists and hosted figures like William Joyce and Oswald Mosley.
- His grandfather, Augustus Pitt Rivers, a Victorian anthropologist, purchased the skull cup at Sotheby's in 1884.
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