Turned disc of Kimmeridge shale: waste from an armlet factory. With square perforation where it was held by the lathe. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/10/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Turned disc of Kimmeridge shale: waste from an armlet factory. With square perforation where it was held by the lathe. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/10/2005]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Dorset Purbeck Kimmeridge
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Heathcote Wyndham; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Iron Age, uncertain Archaeological period: Romano-British, uncertain
Date collected: By 1881?
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1935
Materials and processes: Material Shale Stone, Process Turned, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Thick: max 20 mm, Diameter: max 83 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1935.46.27.8
Research and responses: Old labels 'Presented by H. Wyndham Esq.' and part of a handwritten letter in Related Documents File. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/10/2005]
The English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record contains an entry on the Iron Age - Romano British shale works and settlement at Kimmeridge [SY 9071 7918] under monument no. 456559. The record states the following about the site: Iron Age and Romano-British inhumation burials,working floors and occupation debris indicating shale working and salt-boiling have been found at Kimmeridge Bay in the cliff about 50ft above sea level west of Gaulter Gap. Much material has been excavated from the site by Miles, Austen and others since `coal money' was first recorded here by Hutchins in 1768. The sequence of occupation has been determined by clearance of the cliff-face at seven points by Dr. Henrietta Davies and excavation of some 80 square yards close to it by J. B. Calkin (SY 90707917); the site extends some 240 yards west of the Gap (SY 90787911 to SY 90607923) and perhaps for some 200 yards inland. The record notes that artefacts from the site are also held by the British Museum, Dorset County Museum, Christchurch Museum and the Institute of Archaeology [UCL]. The record can be accessed online at http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=456559. [MN 12/06/2009]

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