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2013.52.3

Stone tool, hand-axe, mid orange patina. [MJD 19/08/2013]

2013.52.3

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone tool, hand-axe, mid orange patina. [MJD 19/08/2013]
Person
Maker Unknown Maker
Field collector James Wyatt
PRM source Unknown Source
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
Date collected
May 1865
Acquisition information
Found unentered: 19/08/2013
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Thick: max 37 mm, Width: max 85 mm, Length: max 147 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2013.52.3
Research and responses

James Wyatt published two articles about stone tools from Bedford: Flint implements in the drift: notice of discoveries in the neighbourhood of Bedford (1862) and Further discoveries of flint implements and fossil mammals in the valley of the Ouse (1864) from the Quarterly publication of the Geological Society, Bedford. Page 8 Flint Implements 'At the early part of the month of April 1861, in the cause of my periodical visitations to the pits, I found that at Biddenham the men were excavating in that part of the field in which they had previously turned up considerate quantities of bones and teeth.' Page 9 'At time of my visit to this pit, on the 8th of April, ...'. [MJD 19/08/2013]

Search terms: Tool, Hand-axe

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