- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone flake, grey in colour with dorsal surface covered with light grey coloured cortex. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 17/02/2011]
- Geographical reference
- England Oxfordshire Oxford New Iffley
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Alexander James Montgomerie Bell
- PRM source Alexander James Montgomerie Bell
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1906
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1906
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 15 mm, Length: max 50 mm, Width: max 44 mm, Weight 9 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1906.9.11.1
- Research and responses
According to the English Heritage maintained National Monuments Record New Iffley (also known as now Cowley St John) is an area "behind Fairacre House, towards Donnington House and spread over an area of about 10 acres" (centred around SP 5277 0473). The site is recorded under monument no. 338524 and can be accessed online at http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=338524. [MN 18/09/2010]
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