1884.136.88

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone flake

Long description

Stone flake of dark bluish grey flint with mid grey patina. Cortex on butt.[JW [Excav. PR] 03/05/2013]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

England East Sussex Lewes Glynde Ranscombe Camp "Ditch" "bottom of"

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: Iron Age, uncertain Archaeological period: Romano-British, uncertain

Date collected

1878 July 12

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 6 mm, Width: max 37 mm, Length: max 24 mm proximal to distal, Weight 5 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.136.88 PR no.: 242/ 12099 243/ 12099 244/ 12099 245/ 12099 246/ 12099 247/ 12099 248/ 12099 249/ 12099 28/ 8386

Research and responses

See 1884.136.1. it is not clear whether these items have been numbered. If they have then these flakes have all been given the number 1884.136.30 but if they have not it would be better to assign separate numbers as here [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Ranscombe Camp [TQ 4363 0907] is an unfinished Iron Age univallate hillfort with evidence of 2nd century AD Romano British occupation. The site is recorded on the English Heritage National Monuments Record under monument no. 405859. The record can be accessed online at http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=405859. [MN 22/07/2009]

Search terms: Tool, Flake