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1884.123.548

Stone tool or weapon

1884.123.548

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone tool or weapon
Long description
Stone triangular implement, dark grey brown in colour, one end has been broken and overall surface is shipped and scratched. [CC [Excav. PR] 12/11/2013]
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected
1864
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Thick: max 23 mm, Width: max 58 mm, Length: max 102 mm, Weight 225 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.123.548
Research and responses

Pitt Rivers was in Ireland [serving in the Army] from 1862-66, this object may have been obtained during this period [Bowden, 1991: 60-4]. 1884.123.607 is labelled 'Found on the banks of the Bann River in October 1864 by Pitt Rivers', I think one can therefore assume that he was in County Antrim then and that objects collected in that time in that area were collected by him [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, Weapon, Axe

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