1884.133.58

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone scraper

Long description

Scraper of flint covered in a light bluish grey patina and orange staining. Cortex present. [CG [Excav. PR] 19/02/2013]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

England North Yorkshire or East Riding of Yorkshire Yorkshire Wolds

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: Neolithic

Date collected

By 1874

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 8 mm, Width: max 24 mm, Length: max 39 mm, Weight 13 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.133.58 Other numbers: 965 , 22j PR Cat other PR nos: 1494

Research and responses

Very little is known about the time in April 1867 when Pitt Rivers worked with Canon Greenwell on the Yorkshire Wolds according to Bowden [1991: 66] but PR probably assisted with the Willerby Wold and Ganton Wold excavations, he also studied a linear ditch system in the same area. This object may have been collected in 1867 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

There are some notes from these Yorkshire sites held with the Pitt Rivers papers (box P12) at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. Canon Greenwell also published his excavations in 1877. Full reference: Greenwell, W. and Rolleston, G. 1877. British Barrows: A Record of the Examination of Sepulchral Mounds in Various Parts of England. Oxford: Claredon Press [CB 8/12/2009]

Search terms: Tool, Flake, Scraper