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1884.123.248

Stone scraper

1884.123.248

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone scraper
Long description
Flint scraper with light blueish grey, mid grey and orange brown patina covering all surfaces, cortex is present on the dorsal surface. [CC [Excav. PR] 17/09/2013]
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected
1870 Aug
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Thick: max 11 mm, Width: max 24 mm, Length: max 31 mm, Weight 8 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.123.248 PR Cat other PR nos: 1380 PR Cat other PR nos: 2254 PR Cat other PR nos: 2257
Research and responses

In Pitt Rivers paper 'Opening of the Dyke Road or Black Burgh tumulus near Brighton in 1872 JAI vol 6 [1876] 280-87 'I have noticed a number of them [holes cut in the floor of tumulus] in a tumulus opened by me near Aldborough [sic] in Suffolk ...' This may be that site [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Nicholas Fenwick Hele is listed as giving one item from the Alde River area to Pitt Rivers in August 1870, it may be that he gave all of them that have this date from that area [AP 02/09/2008]

There may be useful information in "Hele, N.F. 1870. Notes or Jottings about Aldeburgh, Suffolk: relating to matters historical, antiquarian, ornithological and entomological. London: John Russel Smith" [CB 8/12/2009]

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