Accession No

TEMP.01867.28


Description

Claw with articulation and broken tip.


Place

Europe; Southern Europe; Gibraltar; ?Gorham's Cave


Period

?Mesolithic ?Neolithic ?Bronze Age ?Iron Age


Source

?Duckworth, Wynfrid Laurence Henry [collector]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

TEMP.01867.28; MAA: No number 23; UNID: 130895


Cultural Affliation


Material

Bone


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
One claw.
Event Date
Author: Alana Edgeworth


Context (Related Documents)
Pieces of paper found with TEMP.01867.1-28 read: '2 flints and claw. Floor of cave, no exact position found.' and '18.M2. An isolated type. Unless the chert is from a local patch of silification in oite limestone, it is not a local rock.'
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (Related Documents)
A card with TEMP.01867.1-28 reads: 'Probably Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar. Removed from 1947 vintage box addressed to Dorothy Garrod. PLC June '78'.
Event Date 6/1978
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Physical description)
Description for TEMP.01867.1-28: 'Bag of mixed sherds (body and rim sherds and one handle), one claw and 3 pieces of flint, one labelled M2. Many sherds are decorated with coloured slip lines. Some pieces of the pottery were originally numbered with paper labels which have fallen off and are now loose in the bag.'
Event Date 15/9/2000
Author: maa


Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found in box in Shorts with specimens from Gorham's Cave.

Event Date 15/9/2000
Author: maa


Context (Amendments / updates)
Previously assigned the number 'No Number 23' but has now been given a TEMP accession number.
Event Date 29/07/2022
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Description (Physical description)
Claw with articulation and broken tip.
Event Date 27/3/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth


FM:299100

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