- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone tool, flake. [MJD 22/05/2013]
- Long description
- Stone tool, flake. The stone has a dark brownish orange patina. There is white patchy cortex on one surface. [MJD 22/05/2013]
- Geographical reference
- 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
- Dimensions
- Width: max 51 mm, Thick: max 27 mm, Length: max 63 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1909.66.53
- 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]
1909.66.53
Stone tool, flake. [MJD 22/05/2013]
1909.66.53
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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