Context (Display)
Old display label found with objects reads: 'Charred fruits & berries from the Swiss Lake Dwellings.'
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Related Documents)
Messikommer's site label affixed to the box which once contained the material reads: 'Robenhausen/ Wilde Aepfel.'
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Auction / Sale)
Catalogue card [for 1951.434]: 'Part of a collection bought by Professor T. McKenny Hughes from Jakob Messikommer of Wetzikon near Zurich and presented to the Sedgwick Museum. All are from the Lake Dwelling at Robenhausen near Zurich.' Katherine Leckie notes that McKenny Hughes and Charles Lyell visited Robenhausen together on 19-20 August 1873 and that 'it seems likely that [1951.434-446] were bought by McKenny Hughes directly from Messikommer while travelling in Switzerland, and were eventually donated to the Sedgwick Museum' (2012, p. 149).
Event Date 8/1873
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1951.445 [A-E]: 'Five boxes containing the charred remains of various foodstuffs; B: Wild apples.'
Event Date 1951
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Leckie, Katherine. (2011). ‘Chapter 4: Storehouses of Ancient Relics’. In Collecting Swiss Lake Dwellings in Britain 1850-1900. Unpublished PhD. Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. p. 149-151
Event Date 2011
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
One box of carbonised wild apple.
Event Date 19/4/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang