1907.14.33.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Bone implement fragment, spear-tip or point [NC 19/7/2019]

Long description

Piece of a bone implement, spear-tip or point [NC 19/7/2019]

Geographical reference

France

Europe > Western Europe > France

Aquitaine Dordogne Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil La Madeleine

Person

Field collector Henry Christy

Field collector Edouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet

PRM source Trustees of the Christy Fund, British Museum

PRM source Charles Hercules Read

PRM source British Museum

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Palaeolithic

Date collected

By 1907

Acquisition information

Donated: 1907

Materials and processes

Material Bone, Process Carved

Dimensions

Length: max 72 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1907.14.33.1

Research and responses

This object was looked at by Abigail Desmond (DPhil student in Palaeolithic Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford) on 21/1/2017. The object was identified as either a spear-tip or point, due to the damage being consistent with use. [NC 19/2/2017]

For details on the work undertaken by Henry Christy and Édouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet at this site and elsewhere in the south of France see their 1875 volume [also published with Thomas Rupert Jones] Reliquiae aquitanicae: Being contributions to the archaeology and palaeontology of Pèrigord and the adjoining provinces of Southern France [published in London by Williams & Norgat]. This book can be accessed online at http://www.archive.org/details/reliquiaeaquitan00lartuoft. [MN 06/10/2009]

Search terms: Tool, Spear-head