1884.125.69

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone flake

Long description

Sub-rectangular, dark brown flint flake with light yellowish grey patina forming. Small patch of cortex remains on the proximal portion of the dorsal surface. [CG [Excav. PR] 22/07/2013]

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 Hammersmith and Fulham East Acton

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 21

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 5 mm, Width: max 17 mm, Length: max 42 mm, Weight 5 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.125.69 PR Cat other PR nos: 909 PR Cat other PR nos: 1502

Research and responses

Note that Bowden gives the dates for Pitt Rivers' obtaining objects from the Thames Gravel Terraces around Acton as January to June 1869 [Bowden, 1991: 73]. However, there are several objects from Acton dated July 1869 as well. There are also objects dated 1870 and 1871. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Pitt Rivers published his findings from Acton in two papers: Lane Fox, A. 1869. ‘On the discovery of flint implements of Palaeolithic type in the gravel of the Thames Valley at Acton and Ealing.’ Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science p130-132 and Lane Fox, A. 1872. ‘On the discovery of Palaeolithic implements in association with Elephas primihenius in the gravels of the Thames Valley at Acton.’ Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 28:449-465 [CB 8/12/2009]

Search terms: Tool, Flake