Stone tool. [MJD 22/05/2013]

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone tool. [MJD 22/05/2013]
Long description: Stone tool. The stone has a light grey colour. The ventral surface have a mid orange patina. The dorsal surface is covered with cortex. [MJD 22/05/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Bedfordshire Bedford Biddenham
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unnamed labourers; Field collector Francis Howe Seymour Knowles; PRM source Francis Howe Seymour Knowles
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
Date collected: 1908
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1909
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Length: max 105 mm, Width: max 59 mm, Thick: max 42 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1909.66.11
Research and responses: According to http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/17/Beds_1.htm the gravel pit at Biddenham was '... owned by S.W. Jarvis & Son, a firm of stone and monumental masons in Alexandra Road, Bedford.' [AP 28/07/2006]
F.H.S. Knowles carried out some analysis of his own collection from Biddenham and used the collection to furnish examples for his publication "Knowles, F.H.S. 1953. Stone-worker's progress: a study of stone implements in the Pitt Rivers Museum. Oxford:University Press" [CB 28/10/2009]

Search terms: Tool, Hand-axe