- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone scraper, dark orange in colour. [MJD 19/05/2010]
- Long description
- Stone scraper, dark orange in colour. The stone is roughly rectangular in shape. The distal edge has a retouched edge. There is cortex on approximately 25 % of the dorsal surface. [MJD 19/05/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Eastern Cape Province near Sandflats
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Later Stone Age Wilton
- Date collected
- By 1935
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1935
- Dimensions
- Width: max 20 mm, Thick: max 12 mm, Length: max 23 mm, Weight 6 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1935.9.10
- Research and responses
P. Mitchell as part of the Swan Fund project, summer 2002, suggests that these may not all be end-scrapers. Some would definitely be described as side-scrapers. [CRFW 16/9/2002]
1935.9.10
Stone scraper, dark orange in colour. [MJD 19/05/2010]
1935.9.10
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