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1884.123.293

Stone core; recorded by Pitt-Rivers as a 'flint ball'.

1884.123.293

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone core; recorded by Pitt-Rivers as a 'flint ball'.
Long description
Core of dark yellowish grey flint with light bluish grey patina covering the majority of surfaces. Cortex and orange staining present. [CG [Excav. PR] 14/01/2013]
Geographical reference
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
England Kent Thanet Broadstairs surface collecting at three locations near Broadstairs
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 41 mm, Length: max 55 mm, Weight 124 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.123.293 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]

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