Gun flint. Made of grey stone with white patches, and roughly square in shape with bevelled edges on one side. [ILL [OPS move] 12/9/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Gun flint. Made of grey stone with white patches, and roughly square in shape with bevelled edges on one side. [ILL [OPS move] 12/9/2017]
Long description: Gun flint. Made of grey stone with white patches, and roughly square in shape with bevelled edges on one side. There are several white square additions fossilised or embedded in the stone on one side, arranged in two parallel lines. [ILL [OPS move] 12/9/2017]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Suffolk Brandon
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Henry Balfour; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1904
Date collected: 1904
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Width: max 30 mm, Depth: max 9 mm, Length: max 34 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.35.298 Other numbers: 980
Research and responses: OED online: Gun flint: [Flint] 2. a. This stone, or a fragment of it, with reference to its property of giving off sparks when struck with iron or steel. flint and steel: an apparatus consisting of a piece of each of these substances used for procuring fire by the ignition of tinder, touchwood, etc. [AP 02/10/2006]

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