Stone spear-head blade of orange chert with triangular blade and narrow lenticular-sectioned tang.

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone spear-head blade of orange chert with triangular blade and narrow lenticular-sectioned tang.
Geographical reference: Honduras
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Honduras
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Maya
Date collected: ?By 1878
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Chert Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Thick: max 15 mm, Width: max 52 mm, Length 153 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.134.70 PR no.: 88/ 8386
Research and responses: This object was examined by Dr Elizabeth Graham, UCL, as part of the Fell funded project 'Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections of the PRM' in January 2010. She advised that this is Mayan. [AS 29/01/2010]
When Prof. Rosemary Joyce saw this material she agreed that it was Mayan and further noted that it would have been imported from Belize. [AS 01/12/2010]