flake
- Museum number
- 1982,0101.119
- Description
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Flint worked flake; irregular bilateral edge retouch; broken; mottled grey.
- Dimensions
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Length: 38 millimetres
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Thickness: 8 millimetres
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Width: 26 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- From a barrow at Folkton, North Yorkshire (Folkton II or ‘Bording Dale’), which was first investigated in October 1889, before being re-excavated by T.C.M. Brewster in 1969.
The barrow was reduced by plough damage, but an outer ditch with a diameter of 17m was found by Brewster. The barrow contained an adolescent inhumation in an oval grave (burial 1), which was found with the three Folkton Drums. A number of other burials were uncovered during the 1889 and 1969 excavations.
This artefact was found amongst the mound material in 1969.
Other finds from the same site in The British Museum collections include:
1893,1228.15-17 – the Folkton Drums (burial 1)
1893,1228.18 – pin (burial 1)
1893,1228.19 – Beaker (burial 7)
1982,0101.86-91 – pottery, flints, and a jet necklace (burial 8 & grave fill)
1982,0101.92-94 – pottery and flints (pit or posthole)
1982,0101.95-127 – pottery and flints (mound material)
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1982,0101.119