1884.123.631

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone tool or flake

Long description

Orange brown pointed leaf-shaped stone implement or flake; with with central dorsal ridge curving right and uneven dorsal edges. [CC [Excav. PR] 26/11/2013]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland County Antrim Duneane Toome

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

1864 Oct

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 13 mm, Width: max 48 mm, Length: max 77 mm, Weight 34 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.123.631

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, Flake