- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone scraper
- Long description
- Scraper of dark brownish grey flint. Cortex on 45% of surfaces. Retouch on distal edge. [JW [Excav. PR] 23/05/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England East Sussex Wealden East Dean Birling Gap Hillfort near Bell Tout Lighthouse
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Neolithic
- Date collected
- By 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 13 mm, Width: max 41 mm, Length: max 56 mm, Weight 29 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.1440.6
- Research and responses
The most probable location for this findspot is the hillfort near Bell Tour lighthouse, Birling Gap: see http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1002288 [Dan Hicks 16/08/2013]
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