Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten paper note found with object reading in pencil: 'GRAND PRESSIGNY'.
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Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (Related Documents)
General card for a collection of stone tools from France It is slightly confusing about what date the objects are, the card originally states " other than Palaeolithic" which has later been changed to read " other than and Palaeolithic" . It seems that the collection is a mixture of Palaeolithic and other stone age material There are several cards for this number giving some of the artefacts individual entries
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1923.1073 A[.1-18]: 'Part of group of polished and chipped axes, arrow head, handaxe, flakes etc
2 large cores; 6 ?cores/flakes'
Event Date 1923
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: One of the 1923.1073 series displayed in the Andrews Gallery as part of the 'Assembling Bodies' exhibition March 2009-November 2010. Display label noted 'These Neolithic axes are displayed in a circle, according to their size (from the smallest to the longest, in a clockwise direction). This unusual and apparently random arrangement reflects a real process in archaeological typology. Size can be an important indicator in understanding the different tool uses. For instance, the small axes were used for fine woodwork, the larger ones were employed as efficient forest-clearance axes and the long narrow tools were chisels.'
Event Date 5/7/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (Physical description)
Large blade core of Grand Pressigny flint. Striking platform with facetted butt; debitage for blades on one side, retouched around the edges; tapering towards the other end. On the obverse knapping around the edges and remains of original cortex.
Event Date 11/4/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung