Stone arrow-head

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone arrow-head
Long description: Stone leaf-shaped arrow-head. Mid grey with light grey patina forming. Covering retouch. [JW [Excav. PR] 19/02/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England North Yorkshire Ryedale Weaverthorpe
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: 1867 Oct
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
Dimensions: Thick: max 3 mm, Length x Width: max 31 x 19 mm, Weight 1 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.123.337 PR Cat other PR nos: 1858
Research and responses: Pitt Rivers worked in Yorkshire at the same time, at 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]

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