1884.140.1557.9

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone flake

Long description

Flake of dark grey flint with mid yellowish brown patina covering the majority of the ventral surface. Cortex covers the majority of the dorsal surface. [CG [Excav. PR] 21/08/2013]

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

1870 July

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 25 mm, Width: max 47 mm, Length: max 92 mm, Weight 103 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.140.1557.9

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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