- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ground stone axe, thick butted with facetted sides and lenticular cross section. [MN 18/11/2008]
- Long description
- Ground stone axe, thick butted with facetted sides and lenticular cross section. The axe is heavily worn with numerous scratches ac ross both faces one of the edges appears particularly worn. Many of these scratches appear relatively 'fresh' [i.e. within the last few hundred years] and may be the result of plough damage. One face also contains an area of red coloration, probably post depositional. The axe is a medium brown colour [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: Neolithic
- Date collected
- By 1920
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1920
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 24 mm, Width: max 54 mm, Length: max 98 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1921.91.404.6
- 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see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Simon Thorpe, this is an unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 [copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe].[MN 26/11/2008]
1921.91.404.6
Ground stone axe, thick butted with facetted sides and lenticular cross section. [MN 18/11/2008]
1921.91.404.6
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