1928.68.265

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone tool; Quartzite implement made from a pointed lump of yellowish porous stone, an area of which has a smoother texture. [LKG 12/04/2010]

Geographical reference

South Africa

Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa

Eastern Cape Province East London

Person

Field collector John C. Rickard

PRM source Arthur John Evans

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Early Stone Age, uncertain

Date collected

1880

Acquisition information

Donated: 1928

Materials and processes

Material Quartzite Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Width 65 mm, Length 172 mm, Weight 530 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1928.68.265

Associated publications

Referred to on page 24 of 'Stone Age Sub-Saharan Africa', by Peter Mitchell, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 16-34. Mitchell writes: ‘A little later in date than the objects discussed thus far, but worth noting because they derive from some of the earliest explorations of the very rich archaeological record of the southern Cape coast, ... via the Evans route already mentioned [All the objects mentioned here passed into the possession of John Evans and were donated to the PRM with other elements of this collection by his son Arthur Evans in 1928] - 150 objects from J.C. Rickard (accessioned within 1928.68.1-544; again from sites in the Port Elizabeth area; see Rickard 1881a, 1881b [Rickard, J.C. 1881a. Notes on four series of palaeolithic implements from South Africa. Cambridgeshire Antiquarian Society 5: 57–66. Rickard, J.C. 1881b. Notes on some Neolithic implements from South Africa. Cambridgeshire Antiquarian Society 5: 67–74])’... None of these collection is unique in the wider British context (Mitchell 2002a; Roberts 2002 [Mitchell, P.J. 2002a. Catalogue of the southern African Stone Age collections of the British Museum. London: British Museum (British Museum Occasional Papers 108, with contributions from A. Roberts, A. Cohen and K. Perkins)]), with the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, for example, holding an extensive collection from Rickard's work near Port Elizabeth and East London. [MJD 14/11/2014]

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