- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Painted plaster cast of pierced baton, possibly a spear straightener, of reindeer antler with one hole carved with horses. [SM (Verve) 22/9/2016]
- Long description
- Painted plaster cast of a decoratively incised piece of reindeer antler, possibly a spear straightener. The object has a circular perforation and is decorated on one side with three horses. The other side has linear decoration. [SM (Verve) 13/6/2016]
- Geographical reference
- [Aquitaine Dordogne Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil La Madeleine]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: 15000-10000 BC Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
- Date collected
- ?By 1880
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Animal Antler, Material Reindeer Antler Animal, Material Plaster, Material Pigment, Process Cast, Process Incised, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 310 mm, Width: max 60 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.68.11 PR no.: 11/ 10491
- Research and responses
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_fragment_(Palart_310) [Dan Hicks 8/3/2017]
In Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt Rivers ms collections there is a handwritten list [P141] headed 'A catalogue of M.General [sic - Major General] Pitt Rivers' Anthropological Collection Objects illustrating Animal Form conventionalised in Ornamentation from different countries' which seems to be a list of all items which were associated with the display entitled 'Illustrations of Human and Animal form Cases 92 - 93' in Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums. A photocopy of this list is held by Alison Petch [AP 23/03/2005]
The original antler that this cast was made from appears in B. Plate XXX et XXXI figure 4 in Henry Christy and Édouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet, 1875 volume [also published with Thomas Rupert Jones], Reliquiae aquitanicae: Being contributions to the archaeology and palaeontology of Pèrigord and the adjoining provinces of Southern France [published in London by Williams & Norgat]. This book can be accessed online at http://www.archive.org/details/reliquiaeaquitan00lartuoft. [MJD 05/02/2014] See especially https://archive.org/stream/reliquiaeaquitan00lartuoft#page/n683/mode/2up and https://archive.org/stream/reliquiaeaquitan00lartuoft#page/182/mode/2up [Dan Hicks 8/3/2017]
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