- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Hook-shaped flint, sickle form.
- Long description
- Eccentric.
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Circa 700-1000 Archaeological period: Maya Archaeological period: Late Classic
- Date collected
- 1954
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1977
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Length 90 mm, Width 45 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1977.24.9
- Associated publications
- Illustrated in colour as Figure 18.9 on page 396 of 'Central America', by Elizabeth Graham, Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 383-400. Caption (same page): 'Figure 18.9 Ceremonial flints often called 'eccentrics' from Barton Raimie Estate, Belize, collected by Estates Manager Marcus Chambers prior to Gordon Willey's excavations at the site in the 1950s (PRM Accession Numbers 1977.24.3-9).'. [MJD 04/07/2014]
1977.24.9
Hook-shaped flint, sickle form.
1977.24.9
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