- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone scraper
- Long description
- Dark grey flint with mid grey patina forming on all surfaces. Retouch to the distal edge. [CG [Excav. PR] 16/09/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Suffolk Forest Heath Brandon
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector John Wickham Flower
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 10 mm, Width: max 31 mm, Length: max 48 mm, Weight 16 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.114
- Research and responses
The "Brandon" written faintly on the object is thought to be in the hand of John Wickham Flower. Flower spent a number of years investigating the deposits along the Valley of the Little Ouse and Brandon was one of his sites. He discusses this work in two publications. It is likely that this object was originally collected by Flower. It is evident that Flower, Evans and Pitt-Rivers were exchanging material from key sites they worked on and so it is likely that this is how the founding collection has material within it from Flowers work in the Valley of the Little Ouse. [CG [Excav. PR] 03/12/2013]
- 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]
1884.123.114
Stone scraper
1884.123.114
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