1900.77.76

Collection type

Object

Description

Perforated spherical stone. [LKG 18/01/2010]

Long description

Perforated spherical stone. The stone is grey in colour and around the rims of the perforation and sides shows areas of lighter grey where the stone has been worn or rubbed. The top and bottom of the stone are quite flat but the 'sides' of the stone are well rounded. [LKG 18/01/2010]

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 116 mm, Height 52 mm, Weight 826 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1900.77.76

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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