- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pebble used for smoothing bone & horn implements
- Geographical reference
- Aquitaine Dordogne Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil La Madeleine
- Person
- Field collector Henry Christy
- Field collector Edouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet
- PRM source Henry Balfour
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1863 Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
- Date collected
- Excavated in 1863
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1908
- Materials and processes
- Material Granite Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Width: max 110 mm, Length: max 150 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1908.5.81
- Research and responses
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]
1908.5.81
Pebble used for smoothing bone & horn implements
1908.5.81
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