1884.132.237

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone flake, yellowish grey in colour, sub triangular shaped, the proximal edge is flat. [MJD 06/01/2010]

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

Thick: max 7 mm, Width: max 27 mm, Length: max 38 mm, Weight 6 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.132.237 PR Cat other PR nos: 2202

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