- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone flake
- Long description
- Stone flake covered in white patina. [JW [Excav. PR] 08/02/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Kent Shepway Folkestone Castle Hill [Caesar's Camp] "Upper camp - interior" "near surface"
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Neolithic
- Date collected
- 1878 June 4
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 10 mm, Width: max 59 mm, Length: max 59 mm, Weight 26 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.138.36.19 PR no.: ? 638 / 12191
- Research and responses
Pitt-Rivers described the recovery of four flint flakes during excavations at Caesar's Camp: three "in the trenches in the interior of the Citadel" (1883: 438, 457), and one in an oblong pit sealed below the rampart (1883: 442, 457). There are four flint flakes in the PRM collections from Caesar's Camp (1884.138.36 .17-20). Writing on these objects identifies the three from the interior of the Citadel as 1884.138.36 .17, 1884.138.36 .19 and 1884.138.36 .20, and the one from the pit as 1884.138.36 .18. [Dan Hicks 20/03/2013]
- Associated publications
- Pitt-Rivers, A.H.L.F. 1883. Excavations at Caesar’s Camp, near Folkestone conducted in 1878. Archaeologia 47: 429-465. [Dan Hicks 20/03/2013]
1884.138.36.19
Stone flake
1884.138.36.19
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