Irregular shaped flint flake with three dorsal scars and no retouch. Approx. 15% cortex survives on the dorsal face. [MN 08/12/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Irregular shaped flint flake with three dorsal scars and no retouch. Approx. 15% cortex survives on the dorsal face. [MN 08/12/2008]
Long description: Irregular shaped flint flake with three dorsal scars and no retouch. Approx. 15% cortex survives on the dorsal face. The flint is a dark grey with no patina. This flake may be natural [i.e. a plough strike] rather than created by humans during tool production. [MN 08/12/2008]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Oxfordshire Tadmarton Holywell
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Alexander James Montgomerie Bell; PRM source Alexander James Montgomerie Bell
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected: By 1911
Acquisition information: Donated: 1911
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Thick: max 8 mm, Width: max 21 mm, Length: max 23 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1911.30.1.6
Research and responses: Holywell [SP 3927 3561] is located approximately 2.4km SW of the village of Tadmarton. The village is in the parish of Tadmarton and the district of Cherwell. The exact find spot for these objects is unknown. [MN 08/12/2008]
The Alexander James Montgomerie Bell collection of flint tools from nearby the Tadmarton Holy Well are recorded on the Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record [HER] under PRN 4207. [MN 08/12/2008]
The Victoria County History of Oxfordshire [volume 9] contains a reference to the holy well at Tadmarton, although there is no mention of the flint tools found by Bell.
Parishes: Tadmarton', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 9: Bloxham hundred (1969), pp. 150-159. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=101920 Date accessed: 08 December 2008. [MN 08/12/2008]
Percy Manning in his 1921 survey of Oxfordshire noted several archaeological sites and finds in the parish [page 258], but not the lithic tools recovered by Alexander James Montgomerie Bell. A copy is in RDF: Researchers File: Manning. Full article reference: Manning, P and Leeds, E. T. 1921. An archaeological survey of Oxfordshire. Archaeologia 71: 227-265. [MN 08/12/2008]
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, this is an unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 [copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe]. [MN 08/12/2008]

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