- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Flint flake.
- Long description
- Flint flake. Cortex remains on the striking platform. [MJD (Verve) 19/6/2017]
- Geographical reference
- England Oxfordshire Oxford Wolvercote Wolvercote Brick Pit
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Alexander James Montgomerie Bell
- PRM source Alexander James Montgomerie Bell
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1908
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1908
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 15 mm, Length: max 39 mm, Width: max 55 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1908.10.2
- Research and responses
Bell published a number of articles on his findings at Wolvercote:
Bell, A.M. 1894. 'Palaeolithic Remains at Wolvercote, Oxfordshire'. Antiquary 30: 148 – 152
Bell, A.M. 1894. 'Palaeolithic remains at Wolvercote, Oxfordshire, No. II'. Antiquary 30: 192 – 198
Bell, A.M. 1900. 'On the occurrence of flint implements of Palaeolithic type on an old land-surface in Oxfordshire, near Wolvercote and Pear-Tree Hill, together with a few implements of various plateau types' The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 30:81
Bell, A.M. 1904. 'Implementiferous sections at Wolvercote (Oxfordshire)'. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 60:120- 132.
(copies of the first 1894 article and the 1900 and 1904 articles are in the Related Documents File under 1921.91.473) [CB 5/11/2009]
There is also material held in the Manning archive at the Ashmolean Museum. See http://www.ashmolean.museum/ash/amps/oha/Index.html for more detail [CB 5/11/2009]
1908.10.2
Flint flake.
1908.10.2
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