1884.140.1588.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone flake

Long description

Flake of flint with light grey and light bluish grey patina covering the ventral surface and half of the dorsal. Cortex covers c. 50% of the dorsal surface. [CG [Excav. PR] 29/10/2013]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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

England Berkshire West Berkshire Combe Walbury Camp

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date

Date collected

1871 April 12

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884 Found unentered: Found unentered

Materials and processes

Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 11 mm, Width: max 48 mm, Length: max 85 mm, Weight 35 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.140.1588.1 PR Cat other PR nos: 3217 PR Cat other PR nos: 1419

Research and responses

There is confusion over the location of this site. It is most likely that references to Wallbury/Warlbury/Worlebury in the primary documentation refer to [England West Berkshire Combe Walbury Camp]. However, it is also possible that this site is [England North Somerset Weston-super-Mare Worlebury Worlebury Camp Hillfort], or even [England Essex Uttlesford Little Hallingbury Wallbury Camp]. Pitt-Rivers referred to the discovery of 'deposits of grain' 'at Worlebury, near Weston-super-Mare' in his 1881 paper on Mount Caburn (p.451). This might support the interpretation that the Wallbury/Warlbury/Worlebury records relate to this site - see Pitt-Rivers, A.H.L.F. 1881. Excavations at Mount Caburn camp near Lewes, conducted in 1877 and 1878. Archaeologia 46: 423-495. However, for now the primary documentation in the Blue Book - "near Stockbridge" - means that the Berkshire site is the most probable. [Dan Hicks 13/11/2013]

Search terms: Tool, Flake