- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Small flaked stone tool. [El.B 06/08/2007]
- Geographical reference
- New South Wales Sydney Cronulla
- Person
- Field collector Thomas Whitelegge
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- PRM source Department of Geology, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date
- Date collected
- By 1914
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1914
- Dimensions
- Length: max 32 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1914.79.13
- Research and responses
I think that the name Whiteleage may have been mistranscribed at some point [AP 21/08/2009]
The name was mistranscribed, the correct identity of Thomas Whitelegge was made by Dan Hicks in June 2012, see biographies for more information [AP 20/06/2012]
Search terms: Tool
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