- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone core; recorded by Pitt-Rivers as a 'flint ball'.
- Long description
- Core of dark grey flint with bluish white patina covering the majority of all surfaces. Cortex present. [CG [Excav. PR] 14/01/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Kent Thanet Broadstairs surface collecting at three locations near Broadstairs
- 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: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1868 Sept
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Width: max 30 mm, Length: max 48 mm, Weight 71 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.289 Other numbers: 1372 PR Cat other PR nos: 1372 PR Cat other PR nos: 2260
- Research and responses
Note that Pitt Rivers spent some time in east Kent (including the Isle of Thanet and Broadstairs) in 1868 when he examined three flint clusters [Bowden 1991: 72]. Pitt Rivers 'Flint instruments found associated with Roman remains in Oxfordshire and the Isle of Thanet' Journal of the Ethnological Society of London NS1 [1869] 1 - 12: '... The tract of country which I examined in September 1868 extends from about a mile north of Margate to Broadstairs and Ramsgate and to a distance of a mile or two inland from those places ... I found three plots of ground within the area ... upon which the fabrication of flints has been carried on. One near the edge of the cliff between Broadstairs and the North Foreland lighthouse, another about two hundred yards to the west of the lighthouse inland and a third in a field to the west of the churchyard at St Peter's ... [description of flint finds continue] ...' [p8 - 10] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
- Associated publications
- Lane Fox, A. 1869. On some flint implements found associated with Roman remains in Oxfordshire and the Isle of Thanet. Journal of the Ethnological Society of London 1:1-12 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3014386 [Dan Hicks 19/03/2013]
1884.123.289
Stone core; recorded by Pitt-Rivers as a 'flint ball'.
1884.123.289
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