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1884.123.41

Stone axe

1884.123.41

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone axe
Long description
Dark grey flint implement with some white patina and patina forming on the object, appears to have been broken in antiquity. [CC [Excav. PR] 05/09/2013]
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected
By 1884
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
Dimensions
Thick: max 21 mm, Width: max 44 mm, Length: max 70 mm, Weight 68 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.123.41
Research and responses

The 'Thetford' written faintly on the object is thought to be in the hand of John Wickham Flower. Flower spent a considerable amount of time investigating geological deposits and it is therefore very likely that this object was collected by him. There is evidence that shows Flower, Evans and Pitt-Rivers exchanged material from their sites as reference material - this is why material from Flower has ended up in the Founding collection. [CG [Excav. PR] 04/12/2013]

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]

Search terms: Tool, Weapon, Axe, Scraper

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