Accession No

Z 31362.2


Description

Stone biface, a small ovate implement. The chipping is unequal (one edge being zigzag and the other a slight but regular curve), and the colour a brownish grey with lighter markings.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Kent; Crayford; Wansunt


Period

Palaeolithic


Source

Clark, J. Grahame D. (Professor)


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 31362.2


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Flint


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
A loose note seen with objects Z 31362 and Z 31363 reads: 'Attention. Post-find [?Ad] = "Still Bay" = "Solutrean" TP will publish - w & return after borrowing'
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (Related Documents)
A typed loose note seen with objects Z 31362 and Z 31363 reads: 'SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON Three implements found deep in the clay st [sic] Wansunt pit, Crayford, Kent. Exhibited by the President' and an addition in hand writing 'Archaeologia, LXV, 208'. Whilst seen with all six objects, it is in reference to Z 31362.1-2 and Z 31363.2.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (Related Documents)
A loose note seen with objects Z 31362 and Z 31363 reads: '3 flints purchased from the gravel diggers in Wansunt pit said to come from the clay overlaying the gravel near our excavations'. Whilst seen with 6 objects, note likely in relation to the three particular objects Z 31362.1-2 and Z 31363.2. On the reverse is 'T.T. Paterson Trinity College Cambridge'.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Physical description)
Flint; Stone Biface
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Found 2ft deep in the clay layer at Wansunt. First find in 1913 season at Wansunt.
Event Date 1913
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Physical description)
Smith and Dewey (1914): 'a small ovate implement... edges are quite sharp, the chipping unequal (one edge being zigzag and the other a slight but regular curve), and the colour a brownish grey with lighter markings' [p.207]
Event Date 1914
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (References)
Smith, Reginald and Dewey, Henry. (1914). 'The High Terrace of the Thames: Report on Excavations made on behalf of the British Museum and H.M. Geological Survey in 1913'. Archaeologia vol. 65. pp. 187-212. p. 207. fig. 16.
Event Date 1914
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (References)
Paterson, T.T. (July 1940). 'The Swanscomb Skull: A Defence'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society vol. 6. pp. 166-169. p. 169. fig 2 no. 2.
Event Date 6/1940
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (Other)
Not certainly from this site
Event Date 1/4/1991
Author: maa


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