- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone tool; small core or scraper. Brown with greenish brown flaked side.
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Middle Stone Age, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1949
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1949
- Dimensions
- Width 73 mm, Height 52 mm, Length 78 mm, Weight 312 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1949.7.30
- Research and responses
Orange Free State is a historical province of South Africa. It was renamed 'Free State' in 1994 following the abolition of apartheid in 1994. [CMP 23/08/2010].
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