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Object Number 88-8-40/46896.1
Display Title Large flakes as struck off
Descriptions
Inventory Description Chipped stone blades, prismatic, large, broad
Classification
  • Prismatic blade
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Europe / England / <State> / Suffolk / Brandon
Materials Stone
Dimensions Overall: 13.5 × 4.4 × 1.3 cm (5 5/16 × 1 3/4 × 1/2 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 46896; flakes
Provenance
Collector Rev. James Beck
Donor Donated by Dr. Hilborne T. Cresson (December 3, 1888)

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Large flakes as struck off
88-8-40/46896 Large flakes as struck off
Raw Material
Prismatic blade
Brandon
Image Not Available for Chipped disc, worked by means of large flakes struck off
22-34-10/G696 Chipped disc, worked by means of large flakes struck off
Village
Image Not Available for 11 stone flakes - resemble flakes struck off in making burins
37-125-40/3904 11 stone flakes - resemble flakes struck off in making burins
Chipping debris
Lincolnshire
15 flint flakes struck off in making burins
37-87-40/4044 15 flint flakes struck off in making burins
Chipping debris
France
Image Not Available for 3 flint flakes struck off in making burins?
37-100-40/4120 3 flint flakes struck off in making burins?
Chipping debris
France
Image Not Available for 12 flint flakes - struck off in making burins
37-87-40/4001 12 flint flakes - struck off in making burins
Chipping debris
France
7 flint flakes struck off in making burins
37-87-40/4074 7 flint flakes struck off in making burins
Chipping debris
France
Image Not Available for Quartzite flake struck off a pebble, chipped by use?
39-70-60/6268 Quartzite flake struck off a pebble, chipped by use?
Flake
Surface
Well struck stone levallois flakes (medium size)
37-74-50/3363 Well struck stone levallois flakes (medium size)
Chipping debris
Morocco
2 stone cleavers made on end-struck flakes with square cutting edge
54-35-50/10042 2 stone cleavers made on end-struck flakes with square cutting edge
Cleaver
Algeria
Very small quartzite core from which minute flakes have been struck
36-96-50/1809 Very small quartzite core from which minute flakes have been struck
Core
Granite Rock Shelter
3 large, flat, unworked quartzite spalls - percussion-struck
58-50-60/11343 3 large, flat, unworked quartzite spalls - percussion-struck
Chipped Stone
Rub' al Khali