- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone scraper
- Long description
- Discoidal stone scraper of mid grey flint. Retouch on curved edge. Cortex present on dorsal surface. [JW [Excav. PR] 19/02/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector William Greenwell
- 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, Process Retouched
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 7 mm, Width: max 33 mm, Length: max 37 mm, Weight 9 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.133.176 PR Cat other PR nos: 1368 PR Cat other PR nos: 2204
- Research and responses
Canon Greenwell excavated fifteen Barrows in and around the civil parish of Ganton and nine in and around the civil parish of Sherburn. Greenwell published the results of his barrow excavations in an 1877 book co-written with George Rolleston [this book can be accessed online at http://www.archive.org/details/britishbarrowsre00greeuoft]. The Sherburn barrows are described on pages 145 - 155, those in Ganton on pages 155 - 179. Unfortunately it is not currently known from which barrow this object was recovered. Full reference: Greenwell, W and Rolleston, G. 1877. British barrows: A record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England . Oxford: Clarendon Press. [MN 23/06/2009]
1884.133.176
Stone scraper
1884.133.176
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