Plundered items likely to be returned to Nigeria include plaques, bronze figures and musical instruments
The University of Oxford is holding 145 objects looted by British troops during an assault on the city of Benin in 1897 that are likely to be repatriated to Nigeria, a report has said.
More than two-thirds of the plundered items are owned by the university’s Pitt Rivers museum, and 45 are on loan. They include brass plaques, bronze figures, carved ivory tusks, musical instruments, weaving equipment, jewellery, and ceramic and coral objects dating to the 13th century.
