- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone tool, hand-axe. [MJD 15/05/2013]
- Long description
- Stone tool, hand-axe. The surfaces are covered with a mid brownish orange patina. Cortex remains on the proximal portion. [MJD 15/05/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Bedfordshire Biddenham
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Francis Howe Seymour Knowles
- PRM source Francis Howe Seymour Knowles
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
- Date collected
- By 1905
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1905
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 40 mm, Width: max 75 mm, Length: max 119 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1905.54.9
- Research and responses
According to http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/17/Beds_1.htm the gravel pit at Biddenham was '... owned by S.W. Jarvis & Son, a firm of stone and monumental masons in Alexandra Road, Bedford.' [AP 28/07/2006]
F.H.S. Knowles carried out some analysis of his own collection from Biddenham and used the collection to furnish examples for his publication "Knowles, F.H.S. 1953. Stone-worker's progress: a study of stone implements in the Pitt Rivers Museum. Oxford:University Press" [CB 28/10/2009]
1905.54.9
Stone tool, hand-axe. [MJD 15/05/2013]
1905.54.9
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