1929.44.6

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone tool, rouhgly semi-circular and grey in colour. [LKG 30/04/2010]

Geographical reference

South Africa

Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa

Western Cape Province Cape Town

Person

Field collector W. Hardy

PRM source W. Hardy

Date

Date collected

By 1929

Acquisition information

Donated: 1929

Materials and processes

Material Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Width 20 mm, Length 45 mm, Weight 7 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1929.44.6

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: ‘As already noted, over 500 artefacts of the South African - and indeed, southern African - collections derive, either directly or indirectly, from the activities of its first Curator, Henry Balfour, who maintained an active interest in the region's prehistory (e.g. Balfour 1910 [Archaeological and ethnological research. The Times (South African Supplement) 5th November 1910]) ... collections acquired from professional and amateur colleagues encountered on his visits to South Africa. These include .... those from sites in the Western Cape donated by W.E. Hardy (1929.44.1-140). [MJD 14/11/2014]

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