1884.123.85

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone flake

Long description

Stone flake of mid brownish grey flint. Cortex on left edge. [JW [Excav. PR] 30/04/2013]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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

Materials and processes

Material Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 6 mm, Width: max 34 mm, Length: max 42 mm, Weight 8 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.123.85 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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