- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone scraper
- Long description
- Flint scraper with mid blue and dark grey patina covering all surfaces. [CC [Excav. PR] 26/09/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England East Sussex Lewes Falmer "Downs at Falmer"
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date
- Date collected
- 1867
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 8 mm, Width: max 34 mm, Length: max 56 mm, Weight 14 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.133.24 PR Cat other PR nos: 1482
- Research and responses
Pitt Rivers claimed to have visited most Sussex hillforts during September 1867 [Bowden, 1991: 67 and on] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
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