- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone scraper
- Long description
- Small flint scraper with light grey patina covering the ventral surface, cortex is present entirely covering the dorsal surface. [CC [Excav. PR] 16/09/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Suffolk Suffolk Coastal District Hundred River
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Nicholas Fenwick Hele
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1870 Aug
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 12 mm, Width: max 34 mm, Length: max 26 mm proximal to distal, Weight 12 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.255 PR Cat other PR nos: 1380 PR Cat other PR nos: 2254 PR Cat other PR nos: 2257
- Research and responses
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]
1884.123.255
Stone scraper
1884.123.255
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