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1884.140.1300

Stone hand-axe

1884.140.1300

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone hand-axe
Long description
Hand-axe of mid brownish grey flint covered in a light yellowish brown patina. Covering and edge retouch. [CG [Excav. PR] 29/01/2013]
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 St Peter's brick pit near Reading Street
Date / Period
Date made: Unknown Archaeological period: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected
1868 Sept 25
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884 Found unentered: 25/01/2013
Materials and processes
Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
Dimensions
Thick: max 16 mm, Width: max 45 mm, Length: max 72 mm, Weight 50 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.140.1300 PR Cat other PR nos: 1365 PR Cat other PR nos: 2207 PR Cat other PR nos: 2209
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: 'a very well- formed flint spear-head (fig. 17) at the same depth, of nearly triangu]ar form, two inches and a half long, and one and a half broad at the base, about half an inch thick at the base, and tapering towards the poilnt. ' (Pg 9. Fig. 17). [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 - illustrated as Figure 17 [Dan Hicks 19/03/2013]

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