- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone flake
- Long description
- White patinated stone flake. Cortex on butt and distal edge. [JW [Excav. PR] 25/04/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England West Sussex Chanctonbury Ring
- 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
- 1867 Sept 26
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 9 mm, Width: max 66 mm, Length: max 55 mm, Weight 13 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.123.468.16
- Research and responses
These objects were obviously found during Pitt Rivers' tour of Sussex hillforts during September 1867 [Bowden, 1991: 67] when he visited Chanctonbury Ring. Note number of objects in no. of objects field is just a guess [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Pitt Rivers published his survey of Sussex hillforts in 1869 as ‘An examination into the characters and probable origins of the hill forts of Sussex.’ Archaeologia 42:27-52 [CB 8/12/2009]
1884.123.468.16
Stone flake
1884.123.468.16
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