Stone flake

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone flake
Long description: Flake of flint covered in a mid yellowish grey patina. [CG [Excav. PR] 01/03/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England North Yorkshire Ryedale Willerby Wold
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Unknown Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Bronze Age, uncertain
Date collected: 1867 April 8
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884 Found unentered: 28/02/2013
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Thick: max 2 mm, Width: max 15 mm, Length: max 45 mm, Weight 2 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.140.1380
Research and responses: Very little is known about the time in April 1867 when Pitt Rivers worked with Canon Greenwell on the Yorkshire Wolds according to Bowden [1991: 66] but PR probably assisted with the Willerby Wold and Ganton Wold excavations, he also studied a linear ditch system in the same area [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Canon Greenwell excavated seven barrows in and around the civil parish of Willerby. Greenwell published the results of his barrow excavations in an 1877 book co-written with George Rolleston [this book can be accessed online at http://www.archive.org/details/britishbarrowsre00greeuoft]. The Willerby barrows are described on pages 180 - 186. The majority of these barrows appear to have been excavated in 1867. Unfortunately it is not currently known from which of these seven barrows this object was recovered. Full reference: Greenwell, W and Rolleston, G. 1877. British barrows: A record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England . Oxford: Clarendon Press. [MN 23/06/2009]

Search terms: Tool, Flake