Flint flake, dark greyish orange in colour, roughly rhombus shaped. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 10/02/2011]

Collection type: Object
Description: Flint flake, dark greyish orange in colour, roughly rhombus shaped. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 10/02/2011]
Long description: Flint flake, dark greyish orange in colour, roughly rhombus shaped. The flake tapers towards the distal left edge. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 10/02/2011]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Oxfordshire Oxford New Iffley
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Alexander James Montgomerie Bell; PRM source Archibald Colquhoun Bell
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected: By 1920
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1920
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Thick: max 7 mm, Width: max 30 mm, Length: max 33 mm, Weight 8 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1921.91.405.142
Research and responses: The Neolithic artefacts comprise the majority of the Iffley collection of stone tools collected by Alexander James Montgomerie Bell, yet until recently the collection location was subject to ambiguity. The artefacts themselves were recorded as being from a 'Neolithic site at Iffley' in the Museum catalogue. Bell published nothing on the Neolithic tools, and the Museum holds no details of the location of the Neolithic remains [the manuscript which may hold Bell's original notes being lost, see http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/englishness-Bell-collection.html ]. Luckily Percy Manning, a prolific recorder of archaeological data in Oxfordshire, made a copy of Bell's notes and recorded that the site was located "Behind Fairacre House, towards Donnington House over about 10 acres" [quote from Manning archive 692, and is copyright The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford]. Based on this description it is possible to place the site at SP 5278 0470 [approx. centre], between Fairacres Convent of the Incarnation and Donnington Lodge. The English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record agrees with this location placing the site "behind Fairacre House, towards Donnington House and spread over an area of about 10 acres" (centered around SP 5277 0473). The site is recorded under monument no. 338524 and can be accessed online at http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=338524. For more information on Bell's collecting activities at Iffley please see http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/englishness-Iffley-Bell.html . [MN 06/04/2009; MN 18/09/2010]
On the 16th May 1907 Alexander James Montgomerie Bell presented a lecture to the Ashmolean Natural History Society on 'Prehistoric Oxford: Neolithic Settlement at New Iffley'. A report of this lecture was printed in the Oxford Times on May 25, 1907. Percy Manning (a well known local antiquarian) also kept notes on the lecture, these are held as part of the Manning Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, unique ID: Manning 886. [MN 06/04/2009]
The site is recorded on the Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record as a "Multi-Period Flint factory and Occupation Site" under PRN 3652. [MN 06/04/2009]

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