- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone scraper
- Long description
- Stone scraper of mid grey flint with light grey patina forming. Cortex present on 25% of surfaces. Flaked all over. [JW [Excav. PR] 18/02/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England East Riding of Yorkshire Bridlington
- 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 Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 17 mm, Width: max 50 mm, Length: max 60 mm, Weight 60 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.465
- Research and responses
Very little is known about the time in April 1867 when Pitt Rivers worked with Canon Greenwell on the Yorkshire Wolds according to Bowden [1991: 66] but PR probably assisted with the Willerby Wold and Ganton Wold excavations, he also studied a linear ditch system in the same area. This object dates from after the recorded time of Pitt Rivers' visit [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
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]
1884.123.465
Stone scraper
1884.123.465
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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