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1884.129.18

Sharpening stone, thin oval plate. [MJD 25/04/2013]

1884.129.18

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Collection type
Object
Description
Sharpening stone, thin oval plate. [MJD 25/04/2013]
Long description
Sharpening stone, thin oval plate. The stone is flaked around the edges. The stone is dark reddish brown in colour. [MJD 25/04/2013]
Date / Period
Date made: Possibly before 1878
Date collected
By 1878 Jan 21
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Ground, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Thick: max 20 mm, Width: max 128 mm, Length: max 233 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.129.18 PR Cat other PR nos: 3433 PR no.: ?134/ 11935
Research and responses

Note that the green book entry has been made on the basis of geographic place and description of object. However if the object has the number has the number 11935 in reality one would expect this object to have been delivered to South Kensington Museum in early 1881 and not 1878 and the green book entry may not match it. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

See researchers file 'Milliken' for draft of A brief history of the stone tool collections from India in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford by Sarah Milliken from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. [ZM 22/08/2008]

Associated publications
JAI 1878: 462 'Tâlag-da Sharpening stone with this they sharpen all their iron implements Pl XII'

Search terms: Tool, Weapon, Whetstone

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