- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Semi circular scraper with retouch on the distal, right and left dorsal edges. [MN 13/11/2008]
- Long description
- Semi circular scraper with retouch on the distal, right and left dorsal edges. No flake scars or retouch on the ventral surface. The flint has a light greyish white patina and reddish orange iron staining.
- Geographical reference
- England Oxfordshire West Oxfordshire Charlbury
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Neolithic
- Date collected
- By 1910
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1910
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 12 mm, Length: max 40 mm, Width: max 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1910.72.20 Other numbers: 1910.ß.303 - 312
- Research and responses
Further flint objects from Charlbury are held by the Oxfordshire Museums Service, see OXCMS 1974.8.45, 1974.8.40 and 1974.8.41. [MN 10/11/2008]
The Ashmolean Museum holds a range of archives by Percy Manning on archaeological sites at Charlbury, see the following URL for more information http://www.ashmolean.museum/ash/amps/oha/Index.html. [MN 10/11/2008]
For general information on the Museum's collections of Oxfordshire archaeological material including lists of sites, grid references etc see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Simon Thorpe. this is an unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 [copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe]. [MN 10/11/2008]
Charlbury is a town in the district of West Oxford, its grid reference is SP 357 194 [please note this is not a reference for the find spot]. [MN 12/11/2008]
- Associated publications
- The Wilson collection of flint objects from Charlbury is associated with PRN 15921 on the Oxfordshire Historic Environment Resource [HER]. [MN 10/11/2008] Various flint arrow heads from Charlbury were noted in Percy Manning's 1921 survey of Oxfordshire [page 238]. It is not known if this refers the scrapers and arrow heads purchased in 1910, but it is thought to be likely. A copy is in RDF: Researchers File: Manning. Full article reference: Manning, P and Leeds, E. T. 1921. An archaeological survey of Oxfordshire. Archaeologia 71: 227-265. [MN 10/11/2008]
1910.72.20
Semi circular scraper with retouch on the distal, right and left dorsal edges. [MN 13/11/2008]
1910.72.20
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