- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone flake
- Long description
- Stone flake of mid grey flint with light grey patina forming. Cortex on butt and right edge. [JW [Excav. PR] 30/04/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England West Sussex Mid Sussex Newtimber Devil's Dyke Road Black Burgh Barrow
- 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: Neolithic
- Date collected
- 1872 Aug
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 6 mm, Width: max 32 mm, Length: max 46 mm, Weight 10 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.77 PR no.: ? 64/ 8386
- Research and responses
If the match to the delivery catalogue is correct then the match to the green book entry is also. See other information given for 1884.128.68. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Pitt Rivers published his excavation at Black Burgh bowl barrow in the 1872 issue of The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, as stated in the Primary Documentation. The full reference for this article is: Lane Fox, A. 1877. Opening of the Dyke Road, or Black Burgh Tumulus, Near Brighton, in 1872. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 6: pp 280-287. This article can be accessed on JSTOR, the stable URL is http://www.jstor.org/stable/2841416 [MN 16/06/2009]
Black Burgh [TQ 2697 0964] is a bowl barrow located in the civil parish of Newtimber. The English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record [NMR] holds an entry on the barrow, see monument no. 398455. The NMR record can be accessed online at http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=398455. [MN 16/06/2009]
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