- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone blade flake
- Long description
- Stone blade flake of yellowish brown flint. Cortex present on distal edge. Possible retouch on left, right and proximal edges. Yellowish white patina forming al over. [MJD 03/01/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Surrey Guildford Postford Farm
- 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
- 1874 - 1877
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 5 mm, Width: max 20 mm, Length: max 50 mm, Weight 8 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.132.114
- Research and responses
Pitt Rivers lived in Guildford from 1873 - 1877. [see Chapman, 1981][Bowden, 1991: 83-4] [Thompson, 1977: 124] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Postford Farm has been located on the 1st edition OS map 1:2500 at Grid ref 504434 146706 (map square 34tq0446). The OS historic maps can be accessed online at http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/ [CB 13/11/2009]
Search terms: Tool, Blade Flake
