1921.91.407.12

Collection type

Object

Description

Flint flake with several flake scars on the dorsal surface. No retouch is present. The flint is a yellowish mid brown colour. [MN 04/12/2008]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

England Oxfordshire Oxford Bank of River Cherwell

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 4 mm, Width: max 19 mm, Length: max 15 mm distal to proximal ends

Object numbers

Accession number: 1921.91.407.12

Research and responses

The Alexander James Montgomerie Bell collection of flint tools accessioned under 1921.91.407 .1 to 1921.91.407 .46 were collected from the Bank of the River Cherwell around the vicinity of Summertown, a suburb on the Northern edge of Oxford [grid ref SP 517 089, the exact find spot is unknown]. [MN 04/12/2008].

Various Early Bronze Age finds from Summertown were noted in Percy Manning's 1921 survey of Oxfordshire [page 251]. There are no references in the article to the flint tools that are in the Pitt Rivers collection. A copy is in RDF: Researchers File: Manning. Full article reference: Manning, P and Leeds, E. T. 1921. An archaeological survey of Oxfordshire. Archaeologia 71: 227-265. [MN 04/12/2008]

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see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Simon Thorpe, this is an unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 [copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe].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 04/12/2008]

Search terms: Tool, Flake, Debitage