1884.131.20

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone core

Long description

Stone core of flint covered in a light yellowish grey patina. [CG [Excav. PR] 23/05/2013]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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

England West Sussex Worthing Findon Cissbury Ring "Pit 11"

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

1868 Jan 29

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 48 mm, Width: max 54 mm, Length: max 116 mm, Weight 312 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.131.20 Other numbers: 3c

Research and responses

Pitt Rivers excavated at Cissbury hillfort in September 1867, January 1868 and April, June-Sept 1875 [see Bowden, 1991]. See also 'Excavations in Cissbury Camp, Sussex; being a report of the Exploration Committee of the Anthropological Institute for the year 1875' JAI vol V p357 1876. In late summer 1867 Pitt Rivers surveyed Sussex hillforts [Thompson, 1977: 47] Cissbury was the largest camp in Sussex and he excavated there in September 1867 and January 1868 [Thompson, 1977: 48] According to Thompson this was first formal excavation he undertook. He continued his archaeological work in Sussex in 1875 when he began a series of excavations on Sussex hillforts [Thompson, 1977: 52]: ‘Throughout the spring and summer of 1875, he was excavating at Cissbury, supervising a team of four or five workers and entertaining workers [sic - ?visitors] from the Anthropological Institute, and later the Royal Society, as they came to look at the excavation.’ [Chapman, 1981: 399, referenced to Thompson] [AP 25/08/2006]

It is likely that this object matches one of the blue book entries and delivery catalogue entries on Cissbury for which a new entry has been made, this can be checked when the object is found if there is a four figure number or a blue reference number written on the object. See also 'Excavations in Cissbury Camp, Sussex; being a report of the Exploration Committee of the Anthropological Institute for the year 1875' JAI vol V p357 1876. This article can be accessed online via JSTOR. The stable URL is http://www.jstor.org/stable/2840899. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998; MN 26/06/2009]

The hill fort at Cissbury Ring [TQ 1395 0805] and the flint mines [TQ 1360 0788] at the same site are recorded on the English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record under monument no's. 395595 and 395602. The records are available to view online, see http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk. [MN 26/06/2009]

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