Fire or gun flint. The stone is brown in colour and slightly translucent. It is square in shape with sharpened edges. [AF [OPS move] 7/9/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Fire or gun flint. The stone is brown in colour and slightly translucent. It is square in shape with sharpened edges. [AF [OPS move] 7/9/2017]
Geographical reference: Portugal
Europe > Southern Europe > Portugal; Estremadura
Cultural groups: Portuguese
Person: Field collector Henry Balfour; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1939
Date collected: By 1939
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Depth: max 4 mm, Width: max 34 mm, Length: max 33 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.35.203 Other numbers: 885

Search terms: Fire, Firearm Weapon, Fire Accessory, Firearm Accessory

Further items to explore

1938.35.488'Strike a light' flint, square with triangular section. Grey with white patches. [BS [OPS move] 31/8/2017]1938.35.488
1965.3.219.1Fire steel. Made from metal and shaped into a looped oval with a rectangular shaped hole in the centre. For the component parts see 1965.3.219 .2 for the other fire steel and 1965.3.219 .3 for the piece of flint. [SB [OPS Move] 20/4/2017]1965.3.219.1
1938.35.775.3Fire steel. Rectangular with smooth surfaces and rounded corners. On one side there is an impressed Sheffield mark. For the associated components of this object see 1938.35.775 .1 & .2 [BS [OPS move] 31/8/2017]1938.35.775.3
1938.35.1135.4Iron damper, part of a tinder box, square shaped with a cylindrical knob. For the other constituent parts see [1938.35.1135 .1 -3] and [1938.35.1135 .5 - 10]. [CW [OPS Move] 27/3/2017]1938.35.1135.4
1939.3.25.1Figure of a woman in a pink shirt, a blue and white striped skirt, a white head scarf and red shoes carrying a jar on her head. [LKG 26/10/2009]1939.3.25.1
1962.6.5Grass rain cape, twisted fibres around the neck area and unworked fibres to form the length of the cape.1962.6.5
1932.88.848Brass hanging lamp shaped like a teapot. Circular lamp with two curved projecting wick nozzles, each ending with pointed oval lips around the circular wick hole. Pedestal foot with repeating lozenge and dot decoration. This patterning is repeated twice on the lid, which is attached via a chain (along with a pair of tweezers and a curved, bifurcated pricker) to the top of the curved arm. The arm ends with a vertical, circular domed boss. Suspension hook attached behind the boss. [MOBB [OPS move] 12/5/2017]1932.88.848
1951.13.155Key with oval bow and square fluted stem. [El.B 18/02/2009]1951.13.155