Hammer-stone

Collection type: Object
Description: Hammer-stone
Long description: Flint hammer-stone with light grey patina covering the majority of all surfaces. Multiple areas where percussion is evident suggesting this object was used as a hammer-stone. [CG [Excav. PR] 24/07/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Greater London London Borough of Ealing West Ealing [Ealing Dean]
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: Neolithic
Date collected: 1869 July 15
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Thick: max 52 mm, Width: max 67 mm, Length: max 81 mm, Weight 372 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.125.65 PR Cat other PR nos: 3244
Research and responses: Pitt Rivers himself carried out fieldwork around Acton [which he described as 'Thames gravel terraces'] between January and June 1869. He described his findings at a meeting of the Geological Society and to the Whitechapel Foundation School. It is possible this object was found during this time [Bowden, 1991: 73-4] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

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