- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Holow-based arrow-head with bifacial retouch on the edges but flaking only on the dorsal face. [MN 18/11/2008]
- Long description
- Holow-based arrow-head with bifacial retouch on the edges but flaking only on the dorsal face. The tip is broken off. The flint has a heavy brownish white patina on all surfaces. Less than 5% cortex is present on the dorsal face. [MN 18/11/2008]
- Geographical reference
- England Oxfordshire Stonesfield
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Alexander James Montgomerie Bell
- PRM source Archibald Colquhoun Bell
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Late Neolithic
- Date collected
- By 1920
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1920
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 5 mm, Width: max 20 mm, Length: max 27 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1921.91.404.4
- Research and responses
Stonesfield is a village in the district of West Oxfordshire [grid ref SP 395 175]. The exact find spot for flint tools 1921.91.404 .1 - 1921.91.404 .137 is unknown. [MN 26/11/2008]
It is believed that the flint tools from the collection purchased off Archibald Colquhoun Bell in 1920 are recorded on the Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record [HER] under PRN 5602. [MN 17/11/2008]. [MN 26/11/2008]
Further collections of archaeological material from Stonesfield are held by the museum, these are:
Henry Balfour: 1890.17.2 [iron arrow-head], 1915.37.32 - 1915.37.41 [lithic tools]
Raymond Wilson: 1908.57.19 and 1910.72.10 - 1910.72.12 [lithic tools]. [MN 26/11/2008]
For general information on the Museum's collections of Oxfordshire archaeological material including lists of sites, grid references etc see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Simon Thorpe, this is an unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 [copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe].[MN 26/11/2008]
Search terms: Tool, Archery Weapon, Arrow-head, Flake