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1906.6.10

A naturally holed flint. Threaded together with three fossil beads. [ZM 23/10/2003]

1906.6.10

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Collection type
Object
Description
A naturally holed flint. Threaded together with three fossil beads. [ZM 23/10/2003]
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Neolithic
Date collected
By 1906
Acquisition information
Donated: 1906
Materials and processes
Material Flint Stone
Dimensions
Diameter: max 22 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1906.6.10
Research and responses

According to http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/17/Beds_1.htm the gravel pit at Biddenham was '... owned by S.W. Jarvis & Son, a firm of stone and monumental masons in Alexandra Road, Bedford.' [AP 28/07/2006]

Coscinopora globularis appears to be a fossilized sponge [AP 13/12/2007]

F.H.S. Knowles carried out some analysis of his own collection from Biddenham and used the collection to furnish examples for his publication "Knowles, F.H.S. 1953. Stone-worker's progress: a study of stone implements in the Pitt Rivers Museum. Oxford:University Press" [CB 28/10/2009]

Associated publications
For a report on the analysis of the PRM's collection of such beads, see 'Critical Reassessment of Putative Acheulean Porosphaera globularis beads', by Solange Rigaud, Francesco d'Errico, Marian Vanhaeren, and Christian Neumann, in Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 36, no. 1 (January 2009), pp. 25-34. (Printout of PDF file in RDF: Researchers: Rigaud.) [JC 15 3 2019]

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