Flaked stone implement, light grey in colour. [MJD 26/04/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Flaked stone implement, light grey in colour. [MJD 26/04/2010]
Long description: Flaked stone implement, light grey in colour. The edges are retouched. The stone has a convex curve towards a point at the distal edge. The proximal edge has an abrupt retouch. The stone is not attached to the mount. [MJD 26/04/2010]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Western Cape Province Cape of Good Hope
Person: Field collector William Jessam; Field collector William Whitaker; PRM source Arthur John Evans
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Middle Stone Age
Date collected: 1866
Acquisition information: Donated: 1928
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Thick: max 7 mm, Width: max 26 mm, Length: max 42 mm, Weight 11 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1928.68.333
Associated publications: Referred to on page 23 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: ‘Related to the Dale collection in content and provenance is a small group of MSA artefacts (1928.68.329-334) collected in 1866 by William Whitaker, who, like Dale, was a contributor to the southern African collections of the British Museum (Cohen 2002 [Appendix A. Individual collectors represented in The British Museum southern African Stone Age collections. In P.J. Mitchell Catalogue of Stone Age Artefacts from Southern Africa in the British Museum. London: British Museum (British Museum Occasional Papers 108), 209-219]... All the objects mentioned here passed into the possession of John Evans and were donated to the PRM with other elements of his collection by his son Arthur Evans in 1928.’. [MJD 14/11/2014]

Search terms: Tool, Flake