- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Rubbing slab, flat roughly circular disc of grey stone. [LKG 15/01/2010]
- Long description
- Rubbing slab, flat roughly circular disc of grey stone. The stone is flat on both sides, although one side has an downward sloping outer edge. A section of the edge has broken away leaving a straight edge. [LKG 15/01/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Western Cape Province Tzitzikama District Knysna Groot River
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1900
- Date collected
- By 1900
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 25/07/1900
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Length 166 mm, Width 132 mm, Weight 276 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1900.77.41
- Associated publications
- Referred to on page 24 of 'Stone Age Sub-Saharan Africa', by Peter Mitchell, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 16-34. Mitchell writes: ‘A little later in date than the objects discussed thus far, but worth noting because they derive from some of the earliest explorations of the very rich archaeological record of the southern Cape coast, are the 85 objects acquired from Henry D.R. Kingston (1900.77.1-83) ... None of these collections is unique in the wider British context (Mitchell 2002a; Roberts 2002 [Catalogue of the southern African Stone Age collections of the British Museum. London: British Museum (British Museum Occasional Papers 108, with contributions from A. Roberts, A. Cohen and K. Perkins)]’. [MJD 14/11/2014]
1900.77.41
Rubbing slab, flat roughly circular disc of grey stone. [LKG 15/01/2010]
1900.77.41
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