- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone flake
- Long description
- Flake of flint light grey patina covering all surfaces.[CG [Excav. PR] 20/08/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England Greater London London Borough of Ealing W3 Acton
- 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: Palaeolithic, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1869 May 29
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 8 mm, Width: max 27 mm, Length: max 37 mm, Weight 7 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.1556.12
- Research and responses
Note that Bowden gives the dates for Pitt Rivers' obtaining objects from the Thames Gravel Terraces around Acton as January to June 1869 [Bowden, 1991: 73]. However, there are several objects from Acton dated July 1869 as well. There are also objects dated 1870 and 1871. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
- Associated publications
- Lane Fox (Pitt-Rivers), A. 1869. ‘On the discovery of flint implements of Palaeolithic type in the gravel of the Thames Valley at Acton and Ealing’ Report of the British Association of the Advancement of Science p130-2 Lane Fox (Pitt-Rivers), A. 1872. 'On the discovery of Palaeolithic implements in association with Elephas primihenius in the gravels of the Thames Valley at Acton' Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 28:449-465 (copies in Related Documents File under 1884.122) [CB 29/10/2009]
1884.140.1556.12
Stone flake
1884.140.1556.12
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