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Dr Eric Gardner

Also known as: Dr Eric Gardner; primary name: Gardner, Eric
Details: individual; medical; British; Male
Life dates: 1877-1951
Biography: Doctor and amateur archaeologist who lived in Weybridge, Surrey. During the First World War served in Macedonia in the RAMC. He was based around Amphipolis on the Struma front, where an Archaic-Hellenistic Greek cemetery was uncovered. Donated contents of an Amphipolis grave to the Museum in 1918. Previously donated Roman coin from Brooklands in 1917 (he was the medic at the racetrack/RFC base there).

7 related objects

bottle

Museum number: 1918,0415.1 |
Cultures/periods: x13613 Archaic Greek |
Production date: 6thC BC |
Production place: Made in:Greece |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Amphipolis (historic - Macedon)

coin

Museum number: 1917,0901.1 |
Authority: BIOG140669 Ruler:Diocletian |
Cultures/periods: x14451 Roman Imperial |
Production date: 284-305 |
Production place: Minted in:Trier |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Brooklands

cup

Museum number: 1918,0415.2 |
Cultures/periods: x13613 Archaic Greek |
Production date: 6thC BC |
Production place: Made in:Laconia |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Amphipolis (historic - Macedon)

finger-ring

Museum number: 1918,0415.3 |
Cultures/periods: x13613 Archaic Greek |
Production date: 6thC BC |
Production place: Made in:Greece |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Amphipolis (historic - Macedon)

mouth-piece

Museum number: 1918,0415.5 |
Cultures/periods: x13613 Archaic Greek |
Production date: 6thC BC |
Production place: Made in:Greece |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Amphipolis (historic - Macedon)

pin

Museum number: 1918,0415.4 |
Cultures/periods: x13613 Archaic Greek |
Production date: 6thC BC |
Production place: Made in:Balkans |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Amphipolis (historic - Macedon)

plaque

Museum number: 1918,0415.6 |
Cultures/periods: x13613 Archaic Greek |
Production date: 6thC BC |
Production place: Made in:Greece |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Amphipolis (historic - Macedon)