Mudstone implement of brown stone. [LKG 27/01/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Mudstone implement of brown stone. [LKG 27/01/2010]
Long description: Mudstone implement of brown stone. The ventral side is marked by faint lines of darker brown running across its width. The dorsal side of the stone is marked by numerous scar plains and arisses, and a large red-brown surface in one area. [LKG 27/01/2010]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Orange Free State Oranje River Bethulie
Person: Field collector Mr Leith; PRM source Frederick William Fitzsimons
Date
Date collected: By 1910
Acquisition information: Donated: 1910
Materials and processes: Material Stone
Dimensions: Length 50 mm, Width 44 mm, Weight 41 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1910.34.5
Research and responses: Orange Free State is a historical province of South Africa. It was renamed 'Free State' in 1994 following the abolition of apartheid in 1994. [CMP 23/08/2010].
Associated publications: Referred to on page 24 of 'Stone Age Sub-Saharan Africa', by Peter Mitchell, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 16-34. Mitchell writes: ‘A little later in date than the objects discussed thus far, but worth noting because they derive from some of the earliest explorations of the very rich archaeological record of the southern Cape coast, ... about 200 artefacts from Frederick Williams Fitzsimons (1910.34.1-33; from sites near Port Elizabeth)’. [MJD 14/11/2014]

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