- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone flake
- Long description
- Stone flake of bluish white patinated flint. Cortex on 20% of surfaces. [JW [Excav. PR] 03/05/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England East Sussex Lewes Glynde Ranscombe Camp "Ditch" "bottom of"
- 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: Iron Age, uncertain Archaeological period: Romano-British, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1878 July 12
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 12 mm, Width: max 28 mm, Length: max 37 mm, Weight 12 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.136.40 PR no.: 242/ 12099 243/ 12099 244/ 12099 245/ 12099 246/ 12099 247/ 12099 248/ 12099 249/ 12099 28/ 8386
- Research and responses
See 1884.136.1. it is not clear whether these items have been numbered. If they have then these flakes have all been given the number 1884.136.30 but if they have not it would be better to assign separate numbers as here [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Ranscombe Camp [TQ 4363 0907] is an unfinished Iron Age univallate hillfort with evidence of 2nd century AD Romano British occupation. The site is recorded on the English Heritage National Monuments Record under monument no. 405859. The record can be accessed online at http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=405859. [MN 22/07/2009]
1884.136.40
Stone flake
1884.136.40
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