- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Flaked stone implement, greyish black in colour. [MJD 26/04/2010]
- Long description
- Flaked stone implement, greyish black in colour. The flake is rectangular shaped. The left and right edges are retouched. [MJD 26/04/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Eastern Cape Province Port Elizabeth
- Date
- Date collected
- 1880
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1928
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 9 mm, Width: max 23 mm, Length: max 55 mm, Weight 13 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1928.68.318
- 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]
1928.68.318
Flaked stone implement, greyish black in colour. [MJD 26/04/2010]
1928.68.318
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