Stone arrow-head

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone arrow-head
Long description: Tanged arrow-head of flint covered in a light pinkish brown patina. Covering retouch on the dorsal surface and edges. [CG [Excav. PR] 18/02/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England North Yorkshire Ryedale Kirby Grindalythe
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 1884
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
Dimensions: Thick: max 4 mm, Width: max 23 mm, Length: max 53 mm, Weight 5 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.135.40
Research and responses: Actually seems to be Kirby Grindalyth, south east of Maldon [AP 30/08/2006]
Pitt Rivers worked in Yorkshire at the same time, at in cases alongside Canon Greenwell in 1867. It seems likely that these items were collected at that time. Canon Greenwell published his work 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]

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