1948.11.13.4

Collection type

Object

Description

Flint lathe tool used in making bracelets of Kimmeridge shale. In glass-topped box with 1948.11.13.1-3, 5-12. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/10/2005]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

England Dorset Purbeck Kimmeridge

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector John Bernard Calkin

PRM source John Bernard Calkin

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Romano-British, uncertain Archaeological period: Iron Age, uncertain

Date collected

By 1948

Acquisition information

Donated: 1948

Materials and processes

Material Flint Stone

Dimensions

Length: max 35 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1948.11.13.4 Other PRM accession number: 1948.11.13d

Research and responses

Related Documents File - Letter from J. Bernard Calkin to Beatrice Blackwood dated 18, October, 1948, [same information as given in accession book entry]. [GI 22/1/2002]

The English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record contains an entry on the Iron Age - Romano British shale works and settlement at Kimmeridge [SY 9071 7918] under monument no. 456559. The record states the following about the site: Iron Age and Romano-British inhumation burials,working floors and occupation debris indicating shale working and salt-boiling have been found at Kimmeridge Bay in the cliff about 50ft above sea level west of Gaulter Gap. Much material has been excavated from the site by Miles, Austen and others since `coal money' was first recorded here by Hutchins in 1768. The sequence of occupation has been determined by clearance of the cliff-face at seven points by Dr. Henrietta Davies and excavation of some 80 square yards close to it by J. B. Calkin (SY 90707917); the site extends some 240 yards west of the Gap (SY 90787911 to SY 90607923) and perhaps for some 200 yards inland. The record notes that artefacts from the site are also held by the British Museum, Dorset County Museum, Christchurch Museum and the Institute of Archaeology [UCL]. The record can be accessed online at http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=456559. [MN 12/06/2009]

John Calkin published an article on the shale armlets of Kimmeridge in 1955 [7 years after he donated this object to the PRM]. Full article reference: Calkin, J.B. 1955. Kimmeridge Coal-Money: the Romano-British shale armlet industry. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 75: 45-71. [MN 12/06/2009]

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