1884.138.36.20

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone flake

Long description

Stone flake covered in white patina. [JW [Excav. PR] 08/02/2013]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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

England Kent Shepway Folkestone Castle Hill [Caesar's Camp] "Upper camp - interior" "near surface"

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

1878 June 4

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 11 mm, Width: max 31 mm, Length: max 51 mm, Weight 11 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.138.36.20 PR no.: ? 638 / 12191

Research and responses

Pitt-Rivers described the recovery of four flint flakes during excavations at Caesar's Camp: three "in the trenches in the interior of the Citadel" (1883: 438, 457), and one in an oblong pit sealed below the rampart (1883: 442, 457). There are four flint flakes in the PRM collections from Caesar's Camp (1884.138.36 .17-20). Writing on these objects identifies the three from the interior of the Citadel as 1884.138.36 .17, 1884.138.36 .19 and 1884.138.36 .20, and the one from the pit as 1884.138.36 .18. [Dan Hicks 20/03/2013]

Associated publications

Pitt-Rivers, A.H.L.F. 1883. Excavations at Caesar’s Camp, near Folkestone conducted in 1878. Archaeologia 47: 429-465. [Dan Hicks 20/03/2013]

Search terms: Tool, Flake