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1884.132.55

Stone flake

1884.132.55

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone flake
Long description
Sub-rectangular flake of flint covered in a light whitish grey patina with black residue adhering to numerous areas. [CG [Excav. PR] 01/05/2013]
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 "Surface"
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Neolithic
Date collected
1867 Sept 17
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Thick: max 8 mm, Width: max 21 mm, Length: max 79 mm, Weight 12 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.132.55 Other numbers: 861, 30 PR Cat other PR nos: 1451
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]

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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