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1884.123.306

Stone scraper

1884.123.306

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone scraper
Long description
Stone scraper of dark grey flint covered in white patina. Strip of cortex on dorsal ridge. [JW [Excav. PR] 23/01/2013]
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 26
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
Dimensions
Thick: max 7 mm, Width: max 18 mm, Length: max 51 mm, Weight 7 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.123.306 PR Cat other PR nos: 1366 PR Cat other PR nos: 2207
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]

In his paper on Thanet (Lane Fox 1869: 7), Pitt-Rivers refers to this object as "flint knives: one good specimen of this class is represented in fig. 14; it is an outside flake, two inches long, carefully chipped all round on the convex side" [Dan Hicks 15/03/2013]

Associated publications
Lane Fox, A.H. 1869. On some flint implements found 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 - illustrated as Fig. 14 [Dan Hicks 15/03/2013]

Search terms: Tool, Scraper, Blade Flake

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