Complete snail shell [CG [Excav. PR] 05/02/2013]

Collection type: Object
Description: Complete snail shell [CG [Excav. PR] 05/02/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Kent Shepway Folkestone Castle Hill [Caesar's Camp] "Upper camp - interior" "just beneath the surface"
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Medieval
Date collected: 1878 June 15
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Shell
Dimensions: Diameter: max 17 mm, Height: max 12 mm, Weight 3 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.138.8.242 PR no.: ?/ 12191
Research and responses: A report on the animal bone and shell from Pitt-Rivers' 1878 excavations at Caesar's Camp was written by George Rolleston (see publications field) [Dan Hicks 20/03/2013]
Associated publications: Rolleston, G. 1883. Notes on the two sets of bones from Caesar’s Camp, Folkestone and from Mount Caburn, near Lewes. Archaeologia 47: 454-455. [Dan Hicks 20/03/2013] Pitt-Rivers, A.H.L.F. 1883. Excavations at Caesar’s Camp, near Folkestone conducted in 1878. Archaeologia 47: 429-465 [Dan Hicks 20/03/2013]

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