Grinder of a grey rounded stone with one flat side.[LKG 27/04/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Grinder of a grey rounded stone with one flat side.[LKG 27/04/2010]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Western Cape Province Cape of Good Hope Port Beaufort
Person: Field collector Henry Thurburn; PRM source Arthur John Evans
Date
Date collected: 1873
Acquisition information: Donated: 1928
Materials and processes: Material Quartzite Stone
Dimensions: Width 60 mm, Length 64 mm, Weight 303 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1928.68.423
Research and responses: Other material collected by Henry Thurburn is present in the British Museum. See Mitchell, P. 2002. Catalogue of the southern African Stone Age collections of the British Museum. British Museum Occasional Papers 108: 1-232. [AS 11/03/2010]
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: ‘Additional MSA artefacts collected on the Cape Flats in the early 1870s were acquired from Captain Henry Thurburn in 1872, along with a few MSA and LSA artefacts (1926.68.423 and 1928.68.430-434) from Port Beaufort on the Cape's southern coast; other material collected by him at both localities is present in the British Museum (Mitchell 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] ... 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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