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1884.132.225

Stone tool or weapon, grey in colour with some brownish areas. Its shortest edge shows the point of impact. [LKG 07/01/2010]

1884.132.225

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone tool or weapon, grey in colour with some brownish areas. Its shortest edge shows the point of impact. [LKG 07/01/2010]
Long description
Stone tool or weapon, grey in colour with some brownish areas. Its shortest edge shows the point of impact. On the stone's dorsal side a second, smaller edge is distinctly visible. From this smaller edge runs a straight ariss almost to the point of the stone. On the stone's ventral side is a raised area of brown-red old varnish, which partly obscures some ink handwritten text. [LKG 07/01/2010]
Geographical reference
South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa
Western Cape Province Cape of Good Hope
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1874
Date collected
By 1874
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Width 38 mm, Length 57 mm, Weight 22 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.132.225 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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