Spherical stone with a central perforation. [MJD 12/01/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Spherical stone with a central perforation. [MJD 12/01/2010]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Western Cape Province Kysna District
Person: Field collector Henry D.R. Kingston; PRM source Henry D.R. Kingston
Date
Date collected: By 1900
Acquisition information: Purchased: 25/07/1900
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Diameter: max 120 mm, Height: max 95 mm, Weight 1794 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1900.77.71
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]

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