Stone blade flake

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone blade flake
Long description: Stone blade flake of mid grey flint covered in bluish grey and white patina. Cortex present on distal portion on left edge. [JW [Excav. PR] 10/01/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; 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 6 mm, Width: max 19 mm, Length: max 63 mm, Weight 6 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.123.469.13
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]