Bone dagger

Collection type: Object
Description: Bone dagger
Long description: Dark polished pointed bone implement, said to be a dagger blade. [LM 23/05/2007]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Greater London Thames Valley
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date
Date collected: By 1874
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Animal Bone, Process Polished, Process Split, Process Carved
Dimensions: Thick: max 10 mm, Width: max 30 mm, Length: max 195 mm, Weight 48 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.118.209 PR Cat other PR nos: 12 PR Cat other PR nos: ? 2594
Research and responses: Pitt Rivers himself carried out fieldwork around Acton [which he described as 'Thames gravel terraces'] between January and June 1869. He described his findings at a meeting of the Geological Society and to the Whitechapel Foundation School. It is possible this object was found during this time [Bowden, 1991: 73-4] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

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