Stone scraper

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone scraper
Long description: Stone scraper of mid grey flint covered in blue patina with cortex present on proximal edge. Retouch on left, right and distal edge. Orange staining. [JW [Excav. PR] 23/01/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Kent Thanet Broadstairs surface collecting at three locations near Broadstairs
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: 1868 Sept
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884 Found unentered: 15/01/2013
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
Dimensions: Thick: max 12 mm, Width: max 32 mm, Length: max 49 mm, Weight 18 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.140.1280 PR Cat other PR nos: 2249 PR Cat other PR nos: 1381
Research and responses: Note that Pitt Rivers spent some time in east Kent (including the Isle of Thanet) in September 1868 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Pitt Rivers published a paper on his findings in Thanet in 1868. Full reference: Lane Fox, A. 1868. ‘On some flint implements found associated with Roman remains in Oxfordshire and the Isle of Thanet’ Journal of the Ethnological Society 1:1-12 [CG [Excav. PR] 23/01/2013]
Associated publications: Lane Fox, A. 1869. On some flint implements found associated with Roman remains in Oxfordshire and the Isle of Thanet. Journal of the Ethnological Society of London 1:1-12 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3014386 [Dan Hicks 19/03/2013]

Search terms: Tool, Flake, Scraper