- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone flake
- Long description
- Oval white patinated stone flake. Cortex present on 20% of surfaces. [JW [Excav. PR] 26/04/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England East Sussex Brighton Hollingbury Hollingbury Castle Camp Hillfort
- 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 June 10
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 16 mm, Width: max 47 mm, Length: max 67 mm, Weight 49 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.311 Other numbers: 1416 PR Cat other PR nos: 3234
- Research and responses
See 1884.123.307. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Pitt-Rivers described Hollingbury in his 1869 paper on Sussex Hillforts as follows:"HOLLINGBURY.—Mr. Horsfield considers Hollingbury to be Roman on account of its being square. Mr. Turner, on the other hand, attributes it to the Druids on account of its being " decidedly circular." From personal inspection I should pronounce it to be of an irregular square form, the corners being rounded, and the sides bulging. Such a configuration appears to have been the best adapted to the faces of the hill on which it stands. There are the remains of a bank 40 Examination of the leading from the south-west corner of this work in the direction of Brighton. Ablock of Druid sandstone stands at the side of one of the gateways to the west, and another is on the parapet on the south side. [Note: Since writing the above, my attention has been drawn by Mr. Boyd Dawkins to the evidence of an extensive flint manufacture which exists in the neighbourhood of Hollingbury, and which leaves little doubt on my mind that this work, like the others, was of British origin." (Lane Fox 1869: 39-40). [Dan Hicks 16/08/2013]
- Associated publications
- Lane Fox, A.H. 1869. An examination into the character and probable origin of the Hill Forts of Sussex. Archaeologia 42: 27-52. [Dan Hicks 16/08/2013]
1884.123.311
Stone flake
1884.123.311
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