Hammer-stone

Collection type: Object
Description: Hammer-stone
Long description: Ground hammer-stone. Rectangular with perforation. [JW [Excav. PR] 18/02/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England North Yorkshire Richmondshire Richmond
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 Stone, Process Ground, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Thick: max 23 mm, Width: max 67 mm, Weight 271 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.123.353 PR Cat other PR nos: ? 3252
Research and responses: There are some notes from these Yorkshire sites held with the Pitt Rivers papers (box P12) at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. Canon Greenwell also published his excavations 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]