- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Small flake with flake scars on the dorsal face towards the proximal end. The distal end is covered with cortex [40% approx.]. [MN 25/11/2008]
- Long description
- Small flake with flake scars on the dorsal face towards the proximal end. The distal end is covered with cortex [40% approx.]. There is no indication of any retouch. There is no flaking on the ventral surface. The flint is a medium grey with a moderate amount of light greyish white patina present. [MN 25/11/2008]
- 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
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 6 mm, Width: max 13 mm, Length: max 18 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1921.91.404.115
- 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see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Simon Thorpe, this is an unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 [copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe].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]
1921.91.404.115
Small flake with flake scars on the dorsal face towards the proximal end. The distal end is covered with cortex [40% approx.]. [MN 25/11/2008]
1921.91.404.115
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