Stone tool: handaxe. [LKG 08/03/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone tool: handaxe. [LKG 08/03/2010]
Long description: Stone tool: handaxe. Made from a lump of grey stone which has some small patches of beige over its surface. The stone tapers toward the distal end and along one long edge just inbound of the distal end there is a patch of dark black exposed stone. This is on the ventral dorsal side. [LKG 08/03/2010]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Northern Cape Province Windsorton
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 80 mm, Length 140 mm, Weight 355 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1925.46.292
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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