Stone tool or weapon of grey stone, almost rectangular in shape, with slightly wavy sides. [LKG 07/01/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone tool or weapon of grey stone, almost rectangular in shape, with slightly wavy sides. [LKG 07/01/2010]
Long description: Stone tool or weapon of grey stone, almost rectangular in shape, with slightly wavy sides. On the dorsal side of the stone ink writing can be seen, and has been covered in a layer of varnish. This varnish is on one side of the central ariss running lengthways along the stone. [LKG 07/01/2010]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Western Cape Province Cape of Good Hope
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Langham Dale; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1874
Date collected: By 1874
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Width 29 mm, Length 79 mm, Weight 27 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.132.222 PR Cat other PR nos: 2201
Research and responses: There is a reference in Pitt-Rivers notebooks owned by Anthony Pitt-Rivers to ‘Quartzite flakes from South Africa Mr Gregory Covent Garden brought home some Quartzite flakes and arrow heads which were found on the Cape flats [2 words illegible] behind the Cape Town Mountain between Table berg & Simons burg also others from East London South Africa there are some the closest collection from Grahamstown ALF’ [Miscellaneous No 4 notebook p. 153] He might have acquired this collection and this might be one of the objects, NB there are some items which are said to come from 'Gregory' from Namibia so that if this object is from Gregory in 1868 then this would fit, James Reynolds Gregory was a mineralogist who visited South Africa in 1868. [AP 27/02/2012]

Search terms: Tool, Flake

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