the journal Archaeologia (vol. 45). His typology was divided into four classes, class III corresponded to the Iron Age. He described the fabric and decoration of each type and recorded some of the distinctive shapes, but he never attempted to label the different fabrics or offer a typo-chronology of Cypriot pottery. In 1869, the British Museum purchased 52 artefacts from his Cypriot collection, while he donated some additional items in 1870. Some of the artefacts were exhibited at the Fine Arts section of the Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures in Leeds in 1875 and later sold to the Leeds Literary and Philosophical Society, the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art (now the National Museum of Scotland), as well as a number of other museums. In 1884, his brother Henry donated Cypriot items to the Cawthorne Village Museum outside of Barnsley in South Yorkshire. Additionally, part of his Cypriot collection was acquired by Augustus Franks and also came under the possession of the British Museum through the latter's bequest in 1917. Sandwith continued to collect in Crete. He sold some antiquities to the British Museum and other collections; a few others he kept. He sold his large collection of Cretan embroidery and lace to the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria & Albert Museum) where it formed the core of the Museum's Greek textile collection; those items that he kept were donated in 1975 by his granddaughter to the Historical Archives of Crete. He was early to recognise that Knossos must be an important site and tried, but failed, to persuade the British Museum to excavate there twenty years before Arthur Evans. He secured the transfer to the British Museum of a large pithos – which turned out to be the first Minoan object in the Museum's collection from a recorded excavation in Crete. He later acquired a seventeenth-century Cretan icon, now also in the British Museum. Personal life Sandwith was married in December 1865, shortly before going to Cyprus. He and his wife had five children: the eldest, a son born in late 1866 in Cyprus, died as an infant in 1868; the second, also a son, was born in 1869 in Britain; his other three children were born in Crete – two daughters in 1871 and 1874 and a son in 1872. His wife subsequently suffered from ill health, and they increasingly led separate lives, she in Britain