1905.75.1.26

Collection type

Object

Description

?Thumbnail scraper, with retouch on the distal, right and left dorsal edges. The bulb of percussion has been removed. [MN 23/10/2008]

Long description

?Thumbnail scraper, with retouch on the distal, right and left dorsal and ventral edges. The bulb of percussion has been removed, probably using pressure flaking. On the ventral surface several large flake ripples can be seen. The flint has a heavy greyish white patina on all surfaces and a limited amount of reddish orange iron staining. There is no cortex. [MN 23/10/2008]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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

England Oxfordshire South Oxfordshire Crowmarsh Mongewell

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Carter

Field collector T.J. Carter

Field collector Thomas James Carter

PRM source Carter

PRM source Thomas James Carter

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Late Neolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Early Bronze Age, uncertain

Date collected

Before 1905

Acquisition information

Purchased: 1905

Materials and processes

Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched

Dimensions

Thick: max 11 mm, Width: max 27 mm, Length: max 32 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1905.75.1.26

Research and responses

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/ccm/ecodev/VillageDetails.jsp?Name=Mongewell Mongewell [please note that this link was found to be dead, MN 27/10/2008]: This small village grew up at the site of a spring and its name means 'Munda's stream'. For centuries it was an estate village, centred on Mongewell Park, which since 1953 has been the home of Carmel College (now closed). In the college grounds a path leads to the ruined church beside the river where only the chancel and polygonal bell turret remain standing.

The site of Grim's Ditch a linear prehistoric earthwork [which passes by Mongewell] is recorded in the Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record [HER] under PRN 8900. The site is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument [monument number OX32]. [MN 23/10/2008]

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etc., see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, by Simon Thorpe (unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996; copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe). [MN 23/10/2008]

Associated publications

See 'Manning, P and Leeds, E. T. 1921. An archaeological survey of Oxfordshire. Archaeologia 71: 227-265'. Copy in RDF: Researchers File: Manning. [MN 23/10/2008]

Search terms: Tool, Flake, Scraper