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1928.68.434

Semicircular section of pebble shaped quartzite grinder, with central pit on top and bottom surfaces. [MJD 27/04/2010]

1928.68.434

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Collection type
Object
Description
Semicircular section of pebble shaped quartzite grinder, with central pit on top and bottom surfaces. [MJD 27/04/2010]
Long description
Semicircular section of pebble shaped quartzite grinder, with central pit on top and bottom surfaces. The stone is greyish white in colour. The stone is discoidal. The two pits are deep and nearly meet in the centre. [MJD 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, Process Ground
Dimensions
Thick: max 42 mm, Width: max 51 mm, Length: max 102 mm, Weight 285 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1928.68.434
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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