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1911.80.71

Described as a blade in the accession book, better described as a flake. There is no retouch. [MN 29/10/2008]

1911.80.71

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Collection type
Object
Description
Described as a blade in the accession book, better described as a flake. There is no retouch. [MN 29/10/2008]
Long description
Described as a blade in the accession book, better described as a flake. There is no retouch. Flakes have been removed from both the dorsal and ventral faces but there is no further work suggesting a particular usage. The flint has a greyish white patina with reddish orange iron staining. [MN 29/10/2008]
Person
Maker Unknown Maker
Field collector Thomas Henry Powell
Field collector W.R. Davis or Davies
PRM source David George Hogarth
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected
By 1911
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1911
Materials and processes
Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Length: max 60 mm, Width: max 41 mm, Thick: max 21 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1911.80.71
Research and responses

This appears to be called Grim's Ditch. See article British Archaeology 1998, no 33 http://www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba33/ba33regs.html [AP 02/08/2006]

The site of Grim's Ditch is recorded in the Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record [HER] under PRN 8900. The site is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument [monument number OX32]. [MN 28/10/2008]

A section of Grim's Ditch at Mongewell was excavated in 1974 by Hinchliffe. The report can be found in the 1975 volume of Oxoniensia [the journal of the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society]. The full reference is - Hinchliffe, J. 1975. Excavations at Grim’s Ditch, Mongewell. Oxoniensia 40: 122 - 136. [MN 28/10/2008]

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etc., see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, by Simon Thorpe (unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996; copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe). [MN 28/10/2008]

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