- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Hammer-stone
- Long description
- Hammer-stone of dark blush grey flint with light grey patina forming. Cortex present on 10% of surfaces. Signs of use. [JW [Excav. PR] 23/05/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England East Sussex Lewes Glynde Mount Caburn "Pit 14"
- 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
- Date collected
- 1878 July 5
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884 Found unentered: 15/05/2013
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 60 mm, Width: max 86 mm, Length: max 87 mm, Weight 570 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.1441.8
- Research and responses
Found during Pitt Rivers excavations at Mount Caburn in July 1878 [Bowden, 1991: 85] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Pitt Rivers published his two seasons work at Mount Caburn in the journal Archaeologia in 1881. Full reference: Pitt Rivers, A H L Fox. 1881. Excavations at Mount Caburn Camp, near Lewes, conducted in 1877 and 1878. Archaeologia 46: 423 - 495. [MN 15/06/2009]
The fortifications at Mount Caburn [TQ 4443 0891] are reported on the English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record under monument no. 405932. The record is accessible online, see http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=405932. [MN 15/06/2009]
- Associated publications
- Lane Fox, A. 1881. Excavations at Mount Caburn camp near Lewes, conducted in 1877 and 1878. Archaeologia 46: 423-495. [Dan Hicks 03/09/2013]
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