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1887.1.67

Ovoid pebble of brown stone, with central perforation, digging stick weight hammer stone. [MJD 08/01/2010]

1887.1.67

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ovoid pebble of brown stone, with central perforation, digging stick weight hammer stone. [MJD 08/01/2010]
Geographical reference
South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa
Cape Province
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1875 Archaeological period: Later Stone Age
Date collected
By 1875
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1886
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Perforated
Dimensions
Length: max 118 mm, Thick: max 62 mm, Width: max 98 mm, Weight 1223 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1887.1.67
Research and responses

This could be could be Charles Davidson Bell [see biographies] [AP 19/05/2009]

This object was previously classified as 'A E' in the Archaeology/Ethnography field but was attributed to the Later Stone Age by Dr Peter Mitchell. [AS 11/03/2010]

Cape Province is the name of a defunct province of South Africa. It encompasses the old Cape Colony and was subdivided in to the provinces of Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape Provinces following the abolition of apartheid in 1994. When this site has been accurately located, the name of the province should be altered accordingly [CMP 23/08/2010]

Associated publications
Referred to on page 22 of 'Stone Age Sub-Saharan Africa', by Peter Mitchell, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 16-34. Mitchell writes: ‘One (1887.1.67) from the Cape Flats was collected by Charles Bell (Surveyor-General of the Cape colony, 1848-1872) and later also transferred from OUNMH in 1886 (Bell 1875 [Notes on South African bored stones, or perforated stone balls, and a hafted stone axe from South Australia, presented to the museum; with notice of cave paintings in South Africa. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 11: 140-145]).’. [MJD 14/11/2014]

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