- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone blade flake
- Long description
- Rectangular blade of flint. Light grey patina covering all surfaces. [CG [Excav. PR] 10/01/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Surrey Guildford Postford Farm
- 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: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1874 - 1877
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 2 mm, Width: max 8 mm, Length: max 31 mm, Weight 1 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.469.127
- Research and responses
Pitt Rivers lived in Guildford from 1873 - 1877. [see Chapman, 1981][Bowden, 1991: 83-4][Thompson, 1977: 124] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Search terms: Tool, Blade Flake
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