Flint nodule, does not appear to have been worked in any way. [MN 29/10/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Flint nodule, does not appear to have been worked in any way. [MN 29/10/2008]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Oxfordshire Wallingford Grim’s Ditch
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Henry Balfour; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
Date collected: By 1912
Acquisition information: Donated: 1912
Materials and processes: Material Flint Stone
Dimensions: Thick: max 30 mm, Length: max 32 mm, Width: max 32 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1912.36.9
Research and responses: This appears to be called Grim's Ditch. See article British Archaeology 1998, no 33 http://www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba33/ba33regs.html [AP 02/08/2006]
The site of Grim's Ditch is recorded in the Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record [HER] under PRN 8900. The site is now also a Scheduled Ancient Monument [monument number OX32]. [MN 29/10/2008]
A section of Grim's Ditch at Mongewell was excavated in 1974 by Hinchliffe. The report can be found in the 1975 volume of Oxoniensia [the journal of the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society]. The full reference is - Hinchliffe, J. 1975. Excavations at Grim’s Ditch, Mongewell. Oxoniensia 40: 122 - 136. [MN 29/10/2008]
For general information on the Museum's collections of Oxfordshire archaeological material, including lists of sites, grid references etc., see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, by Simon Thorpe (unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996; copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe). [MN 29/10/2008]

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