- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone knife
- Long description
- Stone knife of dark grey flint with light grey patina forming. Curved edge and straight back. [JW [Excav. PR] 15/02/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England
- 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
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 8 mm, Width: max 39 mm, Length: max 84 mm, Weight 28 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.333 PR Cat other PR nos: 1337
- Research and responses
Pitt Rivers worked in Yorkshire at the same time, and in cases alongside Canon Greenwell in 1867. It seems likely that these items were collected at that time. Canon Greenwell published his work in 1877. Full reference: Greenwell, W. and Rolleston, G. 1877. British Barrows: A Record of the Examination of Sepulchral Mounds in Various Parts of England. Oxford: Claredon Press [CB 8/12/2009]
- Associated publications
- Image published as part of an image gallery on the Arts and Humanities Research Board website http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Image-Gallery/Pages/ImageObjectText.aspx as part of the project image/object/text. Image with the caption written by Dan Hicks (Lecturer Curator in archaeology, Pitt Rivers Museum) 'This prehistoric flint knife, with a curved edge and straight back, is probably Neolithic in date. Its recorded provenance, “Yorkshire”, is unspecific, but the faded number in black ink, ‘1337’, matches with a manuscript source dating from 1874 in which Pitt-Rivers recorded a “triangular flint knife or arrowhead” in his collection. Pitt-Rivers was a Yorkshireman by birth, and returned there throughout his life, so the object could have been acquired by him any time before 1874, in the first 47 years of his life (Pitt Rivers Museum Accession Number 1884.123.333). ' [FB 15/08/2014]
1884.123.333
Stone knife
1884.123.333
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