- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone flake
- Long description
- Mid yellowish brown flint flake with light yellowish brown patina forming. Very clear lances. [CG [Excav. PR] 24/07/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Greater London London Borough of Lambeth Clapham Rise
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
- Date collected
- 1869 Sept 25
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 7 mm, Width: max 53 mm, Length: max 66 mm, Weight 26 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.122.423 PR Cat other PR nos: 881 PR Cat other PR nos: 1421
- Research and responses
Bowden gives the dates for Pitt Rivers' obtaining objects from the Thames Gravel Terraces around Acton as January to June 1869 [Bowden, 1991: 73] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
A description of some items displayed from Clapham Rise at a Society of the Anthropological Institute meeting is given in "Pitt-Rivers, A.H. 1883. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 12:230-1" [CB 29/10/2009]
1884.122.423
Stone flake
1884.122.423
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