- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Hammer-stone
- Long description
- Dark grey flint hammer-stone with multiple areas showing percussion marks. [CG [Excav. PR] 10/12/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Dorset Weymouth and Portland Portland
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- 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
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 63 mm, Width: max 63 mm, Length: max 77 mm, Weight 411 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.473 PR Cat other PR nos: 1870
Search terms: Tool, Hammer-stone
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