Stone eolith.

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone eolith.
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Kent near Ightham
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Benjamin Harrison; PRM source Edward Burnett Tylor
Date
Date collected: By 1912
Acquisition information: Donated: 1912
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Material Flint Stone
Dimensions: Width 46 mm, Length 114 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1912.30.35 Other numbers: 2123
Research and responses: In the Barnes Papers, Box 60, Item VIII [a small album, 9" x 5.5"], Benjamin Harrison has produced a water colour illustration of this eolith. Catalogue number 22. It is on a page entitled "Retroussé". Written below the illustration is "2123 S. Ash" [JFK 06/11/2009]
In December 2007 this object was examined by Professor Roy Ellen and Angela Muthana from the Department of Anthropology, University of Kent, who identified South Ash as an eolith site within the Kent plateau. [ZM 06/12/2007]
On 13 May 2008 Angela Muthana, an archaeologist and lithics specialist, examined this object and entered it on a database created as part of the research project 'The Eolith Controversy', headed by Professor Roy Ellen at the University of Kent [for more information on the project and maps of the Kent plateau area see researchers file 'Ellen'] [ZM 13/05/2008]