- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Medial fragment of a blade flake with parallel sides and parallel ridges on the dorsal face. [MN 15/12/2008]
- Long description
- Medial fragment of a blade flake with parallel sides and parallel ridges on the dorsal face. <5% cortex remains on the dorsal face. The flint is a mid grey with a whitish patina starting to develop. [MN 15/12/2008]
- Geographical reference
- England Oxfordshire Oxford Summertown Linton Road
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Alexander James Montgomerie Bell
- PRM source Alexander James Montgomerie Bell
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
- Date collected
- March 1905
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1905
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Length: max 77 mm, Width: max 35 mm, Thick: max 26 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1905.4.1
- Research and responses
Linton Road [SP 512 082] is in Summertown, a northern surburb of Oxford. The exact find spot is unknown. [MN 15/12/2008]
The three flint flakes [1905.4.1 - .3] collected by Alexander James Montgomerie Bell are recorded on the Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record under PRN 15912. [MN 15/12/2008]
- Associated publications
- 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see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Simon Thorpe, this is an unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 [copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe].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 15/12/2008]
Search terms: Tool, Blade Flake