- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone flake
- Long description
- Stone flake, white patina. Subquadrangular round-ended thin flake, bevelled slightly each side. [MJD 08/08/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Bedfordshire Central Bedfordshire Houghton Regis Maiden Bower Hillfort
- 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
- 1870 Jan
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 8 mm, Width: max 31 mm, Length: max 45 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.217
- Research and responses
Bowden and Thompson do not mention that Pitt Rivers' worked in Bedfordshire in 1870 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
See http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1479 for photographs and more information about this site [AP 08/08/2006]
Maiden Bower is thought to be a "sub-circular earthwork enclosure of probable Iron Age date, [with] overlying Neolithic features which suggest the presence of a causewayed enclosure". For more details on the site please see the English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record. The record is catalogued under monument number 346554 and the record is available to view online at http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=346554. [MN 02/06/2009]
1884.123.217
Stone flake
1884.123.217
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