1884.140.1556.39

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone flake

Long description

Flake of flint with light grey patina covering all surfaces. Broken in antiquity? [CG [Excav. PR] 20/08/2013]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 8 mm, Width: max 40 mm, Length: max 37 mm proximal to distal, Weight 7 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.140.1556.39

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]

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