- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone sinker
- Long description
- Dark brown rectangular perforated stone implement; likely a stone sinker. [CC [Excav. PR] 27/11/2013]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1874
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone, Process Flaked, Process Ground, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 113 mm, Width: max 43 mm, Thick: max 25 mm, Weight 243 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.15.111 PR Cat other PR nos: 1812
Search terms: Fishing, Fishing Accessory, Unidentified Object, Sinker
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