- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone flake
- Long description
- White patinated flake with black deposit. Cortex present on proximal edge. [JW [Excav. PR] 24/04/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England West Sussex Pyecombe Wolstonbury Hill [Wolstanbury Hill]
- 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: Bronze Age
- Date collected
- 1867 Sept 20
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 11 mm, Width: max 36 mm, Length: max 45 mm, Weight 16 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.132.307 PR Cat other PR nos: 3222
- Research and responses
Pitt Rivers claimed to have visited most Sussex hillforts during September 1867. NB I have used Bowden's spelling for the name of the hillfort rather than the Accession Book [Bowden, 1991: 67 and on] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Pitt Rivers published his survey of Sussex hillforts in 1869 as ‘An examination into the characters and probable origins of the hill forts of Sussex.’ Archaeologia 42:27-52 [CB 8/12/2009]
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