Flint flake with some retouch near the distal edge. This retouch [and possibly associated use has formed a slight notch. The flint is a dark grey colour, speckled with white. [MN 17/11/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Flint flake with some retouch near the distal edge. This retouch [and possibly associated use has formed a slight notch. The flint is a dark grey colour, speckled with white. [MN 17/11/2008]
Long description: Flint flake with some retouch near the distal edge. This retouch [and possibly associated use has formed a slight notch. [MN 17/11/2008]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Oxfordshire South Oxfordshire Forest Hill with Shotover Shotover Hill
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Henry Balfour; Field collector Carter; Field collector Thomas James Carter; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Early Bronze Age, uncertain
Date collected: By 1895
Acquisition information: Donated: 1895
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched, Process Notched
Dimensions: Thick: max 4 mm, Length: max 25 mm, Width: max 20 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1895.21.9
Research and responses: Shotover Hill is known to be the site of Neolithic and Bronze Age activity. The Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record [HER] contains details on three sites: PRN 1776 - Flint objects from Shotover Hill now in the Pitt Rivers Museum, PRN 1780 - Two Neolithic pits containing flint scrapers, cores and debitage, PRN 1781 - Bronze Age barrows. [MN 06/11/2008]
See 'Manning, P and Leeds, E. T. 1921. An archaeological survey of Oxfordshire. Archaeologia 71: 227-265' copy in RDF: Researchers File: Manning. [MN 05/11/2008]
Associated publications: This object was mentioned in Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Simon Thorpe. This is an unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 on the Museum's collections of Oxfordshire archaeological material including lists of sites, grid references etc [copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe]. [MJD (Verve) 7/6/2017]

Search terms: Tool, Flake, Scraper

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