Stone flake, roughly rectangular with dorsal crest. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 23/02/2011]

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone flake, roughly rectangular with dorsal crest. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 23/02/2011]
Long description: Stone flake, roughly rectangular with dorsal crest. The stone is dark brown in colour with some orange patina. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 23/02/2011]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Oxfordshire Oxford Iffley
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Alexander James Montgomerie Bell; PRM source Alexander James Montgomerie Bell
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
Date collected: By 1902
Acquisition information: Donated: 01/01/1902
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Depth: max 12 mm, Length: max 34 mm, Width: max 31 mm, Weight 12 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1902.1.11 Other numbers: 46
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 46. Lee describes the stone as natural material [2000: 410]. 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 Oxford University (St. Cross College): Unpublished D.Phil Thesis.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 23/02/2011]

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