- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bone implement fragment
- Long description
- Piece of a bone implement. [El.B 24/10/2011]
- Geographical reference
- Aquitaine Dordogne Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil La Madeleine
- Person
- Field collector Henry Christy
- Field collector Edouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet
- PRM source Trustees of the Christy Fund, British Museum
- PRM source Charles Hercules Read
- PRM source British Museum
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
- Date collected
- By 1907
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1907
- Dimensions
- Length: max 48 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1907.14.33.2
- Research and responses
For details on the work undertaken by Henry Christy and Édouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet at this site and elsewhere in the south of France see their 1875 volume [also published with Thomas Rupert Jones] Reliquiae aquitanicae: Being contributions to the archaeology and palaeontology of Pèrigord and the adjoining provinces of Southern France [published in London by Williams & Norgat]. This book can be accessed online at http://www.archive.org/details/reliquiaeaquitan00lartuoft. [MN 06/10/2009]
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