- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone tool, flake, dark grey flint. [MJD 09/08/2013]
- 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: Neolithic
- Date collected
- By 1909
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1909
- Dimensions
- Length: max 39 mm, Width: max 29 mm, Thick: max 13 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1909.66.239
- 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]
He must be Charles H. Keable aged 48 born in Preshute, Wiltshire and living in Farnham Surrey according to the 1901 Census and described as a Church of England clergyman [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 02/02/2007]
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]
1909.66.239
Stone tool, flake, dark grey flint. [MJD 09/08/2013]
1909.66.239
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