- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone tool
- Geographical reference
- Aquitaine Dordogne Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil La Madeleine
- Person
- Field collector Henry Christy
- Field collector Edouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet
- PRM source Trustees of the Christy Fund, British Museum
- PRM source Charles Hercules Read
- PRM source British Museum
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
- Date collected
- By 1907
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1907
- Dimensions
- Width: max 24 mm, Length: max 55 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1907.14.32.13
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