Section of mammoth ivory

Collection type: Object
Description: Section of mammoth ivory
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Oxfordshire Cassington
Person: Maker Lomax Palaeo-Botanical Laboratories; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Lomax Palaeo-Botanical Laboratories
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1942
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1942
Materials and processes: Material Animal Ivory Tooth
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.10.6.4B Other PRM accession number: 1942.10.B6d
Research and responses: Such microsections were taken as part of the publication of 'Pictures of Ivory and other Animal Teeth, Bone and Antler' [PRM Occasional Paper no 5], see Annual Report 1952 [AP 18/4/2002]
Full ref - Penniman, T.K., 1956, 'Pictures of ivory and other animal teeth, bone and antler: with a brief commentary on their use and identification', Occasional Papers on Technology 5, Oxford University Press, Oxford. [CMP 13/08/2010]