- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Small flaked implement of quartz. [El.B 15/11/2011]
- Geographical reference
- Uva Province [Uva Palata] Badulla District Bandarawela
- Date
- Date collected
- 1913
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1913
- Materials and processes
- Material Quartz Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Length: max 13 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1913.29.8
- Associated publications
- Hartley, C. 1913. 'The stone implements of Ceylon' Spolia Zeylanica Vol. IX, part XXXIX, 117-123; Hartley, C. 1914. 'On the occurrence of pigmy implements in Ceylon' Spolia Zeylanica Vol. X, Part XXXVI, 54-67. Note that we have both these publications as off-prints in the Balfour Library. [AS 16/12/2009]
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