Stone tool, hand-axe. [MJD 15/05/2013]

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone tool, hand-axe. [MJD 15/05/2013]
Long description: Stone tool, hand-axe. The stone is dark grey. The surfaces are covered with a light yellowish orange patina. The left and right edges are retouched. [MJD 15/05/2013]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; 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 32 mm, Width: max 62 mm, Length: max 102 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1905.54.11
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]

Search terms: Tool

Search