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1892.67.248

Cast of stone tool

1892.67.248

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Collection type
Object
Description
Cast of stone tool
Geographical reference
France
Europe > Western Europe > France
Centre Indre-et-Loire Loches Le Grand-Pressigny
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Palaeolithic, uncertain
Date collected
By 1871
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1892
Materials and processes
Material Plaster, Material Stone, Process Cast
Dimensions
Length 201 mm, Width 112 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1892.67.248
Research and responses

Pressigny may refer to Grand Pressigny, a Chalcolithic flint mine located in the commune Le Grand-Pressigny [in the arrondissement of Lochesin, the department of Indre-et-Loire and the région of Touraine].[MN 07/05/2009]

Note that only a tiny fraction of JW Flower items are also marked as being related to the Pitt Rivers founding collection. Whilst it is possible that they did originally form part of the founding collection, were brought from London in 1884 and then placed with the geological(or other) collections at Oxford University Museum of Natural History before eventually being transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum it seems odd that they were not all recorded as being related to the founding collection. Most are attributed to being donated by Flowers to OUMNH and being transferred from there [AP 23/07/2009]

Search terms: Tool, Reproduction, Cast

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