- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Flint core [keeled], sub circular in shape with flakes removed from both surfaces. Less than 5% cortex remains. [MN 29/10/2008]
- Long description
- Flint core [keeled], sub circular in shape with flakes removed from both surfaces. Less than 5% cortex remains. The flint has a yellowish-brownish light grey patina. [MN 29/10/2008]
- Geographical reference
- England Oxfordshire Wallingford Grim’s Ditch
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1918
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1918
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Hammered
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 27 mm, Length: max 52 mm, Width: max 42 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1918.42.90
- Research and responses
This appears to be called Grim's Ditch. See article British Archaeology 1998, no 33 http://www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba33/ba33regs.html [AP 02/08/2006]
The site of Grim's Ditch is recorded in the Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record [HER] under PRN 8900. The site is now also a Scheduled Ancient Monument [monument number OX32]. [MN 29/10/2008]
A section of Grim's Ditch at Mongewell was excavated in 1974 by Hinchliffe. The report can be found in the 1975 volume of Oxoniensia [the journal of the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society]. The full reference is - Hinchliffe, J. 1975. Excavations at Grim’s Ditch, Mongewell. Oxoniensia 40: 122 - 136. [MN 29/10/2008]
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etc., see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, by Simon Thorpe (unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996; copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe). [MN 29/10/2008]
1918.42.90
Flint core [keeled], sub circular in shape with flakes removed from both surfaces. Less than 5% cortex remains. [MN 29/10/2008]
1918.42.90
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