- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone flake
- Long description
- Flake of dark bluish black flint. Cortex on distal edge. [JW [Excav. PR] 23/05/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England East Sussex Lewes Glynde Mount Caburn "Pit 5; bottom"
- 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
- 1877 Sept
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884 Found unentered: 15/05/2013
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 10 mm, Width: max 28 mm, Length: max 52 mm, Weight 13 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.1442.5
- Research and responses
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]
1884.140.1442.5
Stone flake
1884.140.1442.5
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