- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Animal bone fragment, possibly shaft of a long bone. There are broken fragments of the bone in a bag packed with the object. [RH [OPS Move] 18/5/2017]
- Long description
- Animal bone fragment, possibly shaft of a long bone. There are broken fragments of the bone in a bag packed with the object. One of a group of 219 animal bones, bone fragments and teeth excavated from Cissbury. [RH [OPS Move] 18/5/2017]
- Geographical reference
- England West Sussex Worthing Findon Cissbury Ring
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector George Rolleston
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Neolithic
- Date collected
- July 1875
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1935
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Bone
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 18 mm, Width: max 25 mm, Length: max 113 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1935.46.14.13
- Research and responses
The hill fort at Cissbury Ring [TQ 1395 0805] and the flint mines [TQ 1360 0788] at the same site are recorded on the English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record under monument no's. 395595 and 395602. The records are available to view online, see http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk. [MN 26/06/2009]
Pitt Rivers undertook excavations at Cissbury in January 1868 and between June - September 1875. He had previously fieldwalked many Sussex hillforts in September 1867. These excavations involved many members of the Anthropological Institute, including James Harrison and George Rolleston. Relevant publications are: Lane Fox, A. 1869. ‘An examination into the characters and probable origins of the hill forts of Sussex.’ Archaeologia 42:27-52 and ‘Further remarks on the hillforts of Sussex: being an account of excavations in the forts of Cissbury and Highdown’ Archaeologia 42:53-76. The following were all published in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: Lane Fox, A. 1875. ‘Excavations at Cissbury Camp’ 5:357-390; Harrison, J.P. 1877. ‘On marks found upon chalk at Cissbury.’ 6:263-271; Harrison, J.P. 1877. ‘Report on some further discoveries at Cissbury.’ 6:430-442; Harrison, J.P with Jeffreys, J.G. 1878. “Additional discoveries at Cissbury.’ 7:412-431; Rolleston, G. 1877. ‘Note on the animal remains found at Cissbury.’ 6:20-36; Rolleston, G. 1879. ‘Notes on skeleton found at Cissbury, April 1878.’ 8:377-389 [CB 8/12/2009]
Search terms: Animalia, Specimen, Animal Part, Bone