1884.125.90.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone scraper

Long description

Grey flint scraper with hinged termination. Light grey patina forming and orange staining present on the dorsal surface. [CG [Excav. PR] 22/10/2013]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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

England Suffolk Forest Heath Icklingham

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector John Wickham Flower

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Neolithic

Date collected

By 1884

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 6 mm, Width: max 32 mm, Length: max 49 mm, Weight 10 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.125.90.2

Research and responses

The pre-PRM label attached to this object is thought to be one of John Wickham Flower's. Flower spent a number of years investigating the deposits along the Valley of the Little Ouse and Icklingham was one of his sites. He discusses this work in one publication publications (Flower 1867). It is likely that this object was originally collected by Flower. It is evident that Flower, Evans and Pitt-Rivers were exchanging material from key sites they worked on and so it is likely that this is how the founding collection has material within it from Flowers work in the Valley of the Little Ouse. [CG [Excav. PR] 03/12/2013]

The publication "Redstone, H.P.V.B. 1901. ‘Icklingham papers: manors, churches, town-lands and antiquities of Icklingham, together with the text and translation of the Berners’ manorial accounts 1342-3’. Woodbridge: George Booth" may be of relevance [CB 8/12/2009]

Associated publications

Flower, J. W. 1867. On some flint implements lately found in the Valley of the Little Ouse River, at Thetford, Norfolk. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 23: 45-56.

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