Stone hand-axe

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone hand-axe
Long description: Flaked hand-axe of flint with white, yellowish white and mid grey patina covering all surfaces. Cortex present. [CG [Excav. PR] 30/04/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England East Sussex Lewes Plumpton Plain
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: 1878
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Thick: max 35 mm, Width: max 52 mm, Length: max 136 mm, Weight 308 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.125.98
Research and responses: Pitt Rivers carried out an excavation at Mount Caburn from September to October 1877 and July 1878 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
In Primitive Warfare III, Pitt-Rivers referred to "a bronze socket celt, found in a tumulus on Plumpton Plain, near Lewes" (Lane Fox 1868: 29). [Dan Hicks 16/08/2013]
Associated publications: Lane Fox, A.H. 1868. Primitive Warfare III. Journal of the Royal United Services Institution 13: 509-539. [Dan Hicks 16/08/2013]

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