- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone flake
- Long description
- Flake of flint entirely covered with a white patina, cortex present on the right ventral surface. [CG [Excav. PR] 03/09/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Oxfordshire West Oxfordshire Shipton-under-Wychwood
- 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: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1872
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 8 mm, Width: max 29 mm, Length: max 39 mm, Weight 11 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.28
- Research and responses
Neither Bowden, Chapman or Thompson mention Pitt Rivers excavating in Oxfordshire in 1872. Simon Thorpe refers to Shipton Tumulus as Shipton Barrow [site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument number 21801 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
For general information on the Museum's collections of Oxfordshire archaeological material including lists of sites, grid references etc see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Simon Thorpe (unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 (copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe) [JC]
There are three barrows in the parish of Shipton-under-Wychwood located at SP 2682 1555, SP 2973 1739 and SP 2685 1558. It is not certain from which these objects were collected. [MN 16/09/2010]
1884.123.28
Stone flake
1884.123.28
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