Sandstone tool. [LKG 30/04/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Sandstone tool. [LKG 30/04/2010]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Western Cape Province Villiersdorp
Person: Field collector Petronella van Heerden; PRM source Petronella van Heerden
Date
Date collected: By 1929
Acquisition information: Donated: 1929
Materials and processes: Material Sandstone Stone
Dimensions: Width 98 mm, Length 101 mm, Weight 478 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1929.49.4
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 ... Petronella van Heerden (1929.49.1-8). [MJD 14/11/2014]

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