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1884.123.51

Stone flake

1884.123.51

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone flake
Long description
Flake of flint with light and mid grey patina covering all surfaces. [CC [Excav. PR] 16/09/2013]
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected
1870 Aug
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Thick: max 4 mm, Width: max 44 mm, Length: max 51 mm, Weight 10 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.123.51 PR Cat other PR nos: 2255 PR Cat other PR nos: 2256
Research and responses

Nicholas Fenwick Hele is listed as giving one item from the Alde River area to Pitt Rivers in August 1870, it may be that he gave all of them that have this date from that area [AP 02/09/2008]

There may be useful information in "Hele, N.F. 1870. Notes or Jottings about Aldeburgh, Suffolk: relating to matters historical, antiquarian, ornithological and entomological. London: John Russel Smith" [CB 8/12/2009]

Search terms: Tool, Flake

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