- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone tool, grey-brown in colour and broadest across the middle. Both edges tapered to blunt points. [LKG 12/05/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Northern Cape Province Windsorton
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Early Stone Age, uncertain Archaeological period: Middle Stone Age Fauresmith, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1929
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1929
- Dimensions
- Width 78 mm, Length 145 mm, Weight 382 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1929.61.175
- 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 220 objects from sites in the Northern Cape donated by J.G. van Alphen (1929.61.1-200, 1931.54.1). [MJD 14/11/2014]
1929.61.175
Stone tool, grey-brown in colour and broadest across the middle. Both edges tapered to blunt points. [LKG 12/05/2010]
1929.61.175
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