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1884.123.496

Stone tool or weapon

1884.123.496

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone tool or weapon
Long description
Orange brown sub-oval pointed flake. [CC [Excav. PR] 18/11/2013].. [CC [Excav. PR] 18/11/2013].
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected
1864 Oct
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Thick: max 19 mm, Width: max 46 mm, Length: max 68 mm, Weight 52 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.123.496
Research and responses

See 1884.123.484 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

The Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record notes a Mesolithic occupation site under SMR no. ANT 042:013 [Irish grid ref H9990], the Pitt Rivers founding collection objects may be part of this 'site'. The record describes the site as follows: "In Lough Neagh just off the W bank of a long sand bank known as Toome Bar which separates Lough Neagh from a canal and on land recently reclaimed from a small inlet in the lough 800m S of the centre of Toome village. The reclaimed land is damp and marshy with a dense growth of rushes and scrub plus some tree cover. Not marked on any OS map, finds of mesolithic material have been made in this area, however there is nothing visible to indicate these former findspots." The record can be accessed online at http://apps.ehsni.gov.uk/ambit/. [MN 16/07/2009]

Search terms: Tool, Flake

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