Flaked stone implement, yellowish orange in colour. [MJD 26/04/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Flaked stone implement, yellowish orange in colour. [MJD 26/04/2010]
Long description: Flaked stone implement, yellowish orange in colour. The stone is roughly triangular in shape. The stone is not attached to the mount. [MJD 26/04/2010]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Eastern Cape Province Grahamstown
Person: Field collector Andrew Geddes Bain; PRM source Arthur John Evans
Date
Date collected: 1865
Acquisition information: Donated: 1928
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Thick: max 9 mm, Width: max 29 mm, Length: max 43 mm, Weight 12 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1928.68.338
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 'Other pioneers of South Africa archaeology are represented by artefacts collected or acquired by Colonel James Henry Bowker ... as well as by those collected by A.G. Bain in the Grahamstown area of the Eastern Cape Province in 1865 and subsequently passed on to Charles Lyell (1928.68.275 and 1928.68.335-338)... 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]

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