- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Coscinopora globularis fossil bead. [ZM 28/11/2006]
- Geographical reference
- England Bedfordshire Biddenham near Bedford
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Francis Howe Seymour Knowles
- PRM source Francis Howe Seymour Knowles
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
- Date collected
- 1910
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1910
- Materials and processes
- Material Fossil, Process Perforated
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1910.75.188 Other numbers: 1910.ß.396
- Research and responses
According to http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/17/Beds_1.htm the gravel pit at Biddenham was '... owned by S.W. Jarvis & Son, a firm of stone and monumental masons in Alexandra Road, Bedford.' [AP 28/07/2006]
Coscinopora globularis appears to be a fossilized sponge [AP 13/12/2007]
F.H.S. Knowles carried out some analysis of his own collection from Biddenham and used the collection to furnish examples for his publication "Knowles, F.H.S. 1953. Stone-worker's progress: a study of stone implements in the Pitt Rivers Museum. Oxford:University Press" [CB 28/10/2009]
- 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]
Search terms: Specimen, Geology, Animalia, Picture and Graphic Art, Fossil