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1902.1.8

Stone flake, light brown in colour. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 07/02/2011]

1902.1.8

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone flake, light brown in colour. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 07/02/2011]
Long description
Stone flake, light brown in colour. The ventral surface has cracking ripples. The flake tapers towards a wide point at the distal edge. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 07/02/2011]
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
Date collected
By 1902
Acquisition information
Donated: 01/01/1902
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Width: max 35 mm, Length: max 44 mm, Thick: max 8 mm, Weight 15 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1902.1.8 Other numbers: 439
Research and responses

It seems that the only published reference to Iffley by Bell is on p129 in "Bell, A.M. 1904. 'Implementiferous sections at Wolvercote (Oxfordshire)'. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 60:120- 132." (copy in Related Documents File under 1921.91.473) [CB 29/10/2009]

Associated publications
In 2000 a selection of 145 Iffley tools were analysed by Hyeong Woo Lee as part of his PhD thesis on Lower Palaeolithic Stone Artefacts from Selected Sites in the Upper and Middle Thames Valley [St Cross College, University of Oxford]. The thesis was published as a British Archaeological Report [number 319, British Series] in 2001 under the same title. This object was one of those investigated by Lee under catalogue number 439. Lee describes the stone as flake debitage [2000: 402]. Full references: Lee HW. 2000. A Study of Lower Palaeolithic Stone Artefacts from Selected Sites in the Upper and Middle Thames Valley, with Particular Reference to the R. J. MacRae Collection. Oxford University (St. Cross College): Unpublished D.Phil Thesis. Lee HW. 2001. A Study of Lower Palaeolithic Stone Artefacts from Selected Sites in the Upper and Middle Thames Valley, with Particular Reference to the R. J. MacRae Collection. Oxford: B.A.R (British Series 319). [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 07/02/2011]

Search terms: Tool, Flake, Debitage

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