Stone tool. [LKG 19/02/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone tool. [LKG 19/02/2010]
Long description: Stone tool. Made from a piece of orange and dark brown flint. The stone's long sides taper inward and converge toward the distal end, which may once have been pointed but now has no tip. The lines of colour in the stone follow the direction from proximal to distal end. [LKG 19/02/2010]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Northern Cape Province Nooitgedacht
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Alexander Mcgreggor Memorial Museum, Kimberley; PRM source Maria Wilman
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1925?, uncertain Archaeological period: Later Stone Age
Date collected: By 1925
Acquisition information: Donated: 1925, uncertain Found unentered: 07/2002
Materials and processes: Material Stone
Dimensions: Width 29 mm, Length 54 mm, Weight 14 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1925.46.146
Research and responses: Following communication with David Morris at the Kimberley museum it seems that this collection may have been sent to Henry Balfour for his opinion on them, since a previous collection had been sent to him. These items bear Kimberley museum accession numbers and that museum holds data relating to their source sites etc. [CRFW 3/9/2002]

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