- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Box containing 49 fossil beads strung together in 2005 for storage purposes. [ZM 17/10/2006]
- Geographical reference
- England Bedfordshire Bedford
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector F.W. Knowles
- Field collector Francis Howe Seymour Knowles
- PRM source F.W. Knowles
- PRM source Francis Howe Seymour Knowles
- Date
- Date collected
- Before 1904
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1904
- Materials and processes
- Material Fossil, Material Stone, Material Bead, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 330 mm as strung
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.1 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.2 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.3 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.4 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.5 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.6 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.7 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.8 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.9 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.10 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.11 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.12 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.13 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.14 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.15 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.16 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.17 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.18 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.19 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.20 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.21 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.22 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.23 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.24 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.25 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.26 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.27 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.28 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.29 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.30 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.31 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.32 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.33 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.34 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.35 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.36 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.37 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.38 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.39 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.40 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.41 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.42 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.43 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.44 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.45 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.46 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.47 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.48 Accession number: 1904.49.41.2.49
- Research and responses
In all probability this is actually Francis Howe Seymour Knowles, in the Annual Report of 1905 it says: 'Mr F. W. Knowles, of Oriel College has continued his practical study of the flight of the boomerang.' but in the 1906 Annual Report of the museum it says: '... and Mr F. H. S. Knowles, who has continued his practical researches into the characteristics and capabilities of the boomerang and the spear-thrower.' This suggests to me that for some reason Balfour recorded his name inaccurately until 1906 when it was corrected. This would fit with the date of this entry [AP 15/03/2004] It cannot be his son Francis Gerald William Knowles because he was not born until 1915, see biographies file [AP 03/03/2005]
Coscinopora globularis appears to be a fossilized sponge [AP 13/12/2007]
- Associated publications
- For a report on the analysis of the PRM's collection of such beads, see 'Critical Reassessment of Putative Acheulean Porosphaera globularis beads', by Solange Rigaud, Francesco d'Errico, Marian Vanhaeren, and Christian Neumann, in Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 36, no. 1 (January 2009), pp. 25-34. (Printout of PDF file in RDF: Researchers: Rigaud.) [JC 15 3 2019]
1904.49.41.2.1
Box containing 49 fossil beads strung together in 2005 for storage purposes. [ZM 17/10/2006]
1904.49.41.2.1
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