- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Unquantified assemblage of stone flakes; recorded as razors.
- Long description
- Stone tools; Flint flakes [unknown number]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- 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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