Stone flake, grey in colour, sub circular. [MJD 06/01/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone flake, grey in colour, sub circular. [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 13 mm, Width: max 30 mm, Length: max 38 mm, Weight 15 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.132.238 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

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