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1884.122.131

Stone implement

1884.122.131

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone implement
Long description
Flint implement with dark grey to orange brown patina covering all surfaces. [CC [Excav. PR] 04/09/2013]
Geographical reference
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
England Norfolk Kings Lynn and West Norfolk Valley of Little Ouse River
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
Date collected
By 1884
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Thick: max 34 mm, Width: max 47 mm, Length: max 80 mm, Weight 102 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.122.131
Research and responses

The pre-PRM label attached to this object is known to be one of John Wickham Flower's. Flower spent a number of years investigating the deposits along the Valley of the Little Ouse. He discusses this work in two publications (Flower 1867 and 1869). It is likely that this object was originally collected by Flower. It is evident that Flower, Evans and Pitt-Rivers were exchanging material from key sites they worked on and so it is likely that this is how the founding collection has material within it from Flowers work in the Valley of the Little Ouse. [CG [Excav. PR] 03/12/2013]

Associated publications
Flower, J.W. 1867. 'On some flint implements lately found in the Valley of the Little Ouse River at Thetford, Norfolk' Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 23:45–53 http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/content/23/1-2/45.full.pdf [Dan Hicks 05/11/2014] Flower, J. W. 1869a. On the distribution of flint implements in the drift with reference to some recent discoveries in Norfolk and Suffolk. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 25: 272-273. http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/content/25/1-2/272.full.pdf [Dan Hicks 05/11/2014] Flower, J.W. 1869b. 'On some recent discoveries of flint implements of the Drift of Norfolk and Suffolk, with observations on the theories accounting for their distribution' Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 25:449-460. http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/content/25/1-2/449.full.pdf [Dan Hicks 05/11/2014]

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