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1884.70.27.1-?

Unquantified assemblage of stone flakes; recorded as razors.

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1884.70.27.1-?
Collection type
Object
Description
Unquantified assemblage of stone flakes; recorded as razors.
Long description
Stone tools; Flint flakes [unknown number]
Geographical reference
Date / Period
Date made: 4600-2500 BC Archaeological period: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Middle Neolithic Funnel Beaker [Trichterbecher], uncertain
Date collected
1879 Aug 31
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Length x Width 87 x 25 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.70.27.1-? PR no.: 238h/ 12099 238b/ 12099
Research and responses

ALF = A Lane Fox ie Pitt Rivers. Pitt Rivers visited Denmark in the summer of 1879, this object could have been collected then [Bowden, 1991: 87].

Unprovenanced single find. ERTEBLLE - TRB MN V phases. Flint flake; of either Mesolithic or Neolithic date; 'Kitchen midden' find, one only found [PW]

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