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1903.29.66

Stone scraper with concave edge. [El.B 19/09/2007]

1903.29.66

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone scraper with concave edge. [El.B 19/09/2007]
Person
Maker Unknown Maker
Field collector W. Evetts
Field collector William Evetts
PRM source W. Evetts
PRM source William Evetts
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Neolithic
Date collected
By 1903
Acquisition information
Donated: 1903
Materials and processes
Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions
Length: max 73 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1903.29.66
Research and responses

I cannot find a Wood Farm on detailed multimap of Tackley but I can find a Wood House to the north of Tackley [AP 17/08/2006]

Wood Farm is recorded on Ordnance Survey maps up until the mid 20th century, where after it's name was changed to Wood House. The site is located to the North East of Tackley village and to the immediate South of Tackley Wood [Grid Ref: SP 473 214]. [MN 10/11/2008]

The site is recorded on the Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record under PRN 4001. The HER also holds illustrations of some of the objects. [MN 10/11/2008]

Associated publications
Various lithic artefacts from Wood Farm were noted in Percy Manning's survey of Oxfordshire in 1921 [page 258]. A copy is in RDF: Researchers File: Manning. Full article reference: Manning, P and Leeds, E. T. 1921. An archaeological survey of Oxfordshire. Archaeologia 71: 227-265. [MN 10/11/2008] The Ashmolean Museum holds the Percy Manning archive, which is accessible online at thttp://www.ashmolean.museum/ash/amps/oha/Index.html. Several documents in the archive refer to archaeological material from Wood Farm [unique IDs 11203, 1204, 1206, 1208]. [MN 10/11/2008] The National Monuments Record [maintained by English Heritage] holds a record which refers to "Mesolithic flint implements from Wood Farm, Tackley include 5 cores, some 50 blades or flakes, 8 scrapers, 1 other and 17 microliths, now in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford". It is not known what the basis for this breakdown is. Currently only 9 microliths [or pigmy flints as they were referred to originally] are recorded on the catalogue [1906.31.1 - 1906.31.4, 1903.29.70 - 1903.29.74]. This is accessible online through the Archaeology Data Service web site http://ads.ahds.ac.uk. The ADS Record ID is: NMR_NATINV-336924, the National Monuments Record ID is: SP 42 SE 29. [MN 10/11/2008] The site of Wood Farm is mentioned in Robin Holgate's 1988 book Neolithic Settlement in the Thames Basin on page 249 as being a possible Neolithic domestic site. A copy of the relevant pages are in the RDF: Researchers File: Holgate. Full reference: Holgate, R. 1988. Neolithic Settlement in the Thames Basin. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports British Series 194. 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. This is an unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 [copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe]. [MN 10/11/2008]

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