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 Turners Oak 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
Dimensions: Length 95 mm, Width 65 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1912.30.44
Research and responses: In December 2007 this object was examined by Professor Roy Ellen and Angela Muthana from the Department of Anthropology, University of Kent, who identified Turners Oak 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]

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