Worcester College
Georgian college built around medieval monks' cottages, with a classical quad and lakeside gardens.
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This guide to Worcester College in Oxford follows one object: a silver-rimmed cup made from a human skull, bought at auction in eighteen eighty-four and given to the college by a grandson of the Pitt Rivers Museum's founder. It turns on a dinner-table ritual of the senior common room, the unease it stirred, and the archaeologist asked to trace whose skull it was. Best heard standing in the front quad, between the medieval cottages and the classical range.
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