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1884.123.106

Stone scraper

1884.123.106

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone scraper
Long description
Circular stone scraper of light grey patinated flint. Retouch on curved edge. Cortex on 30% of surfaces. [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
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Neolithic
Date collected
1872 Aug
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
Dimensions
Thick: max 10 mm, Width: max 50 mm, Length: max 40 mm proximal to distal, Weight 23 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.123.106 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]

Search terms: Tool, Scraper, Flake

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