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plaquette (Ice Age art); portable art

Object Type: plaquette (Ice Age art); portable art
Museum number: Palart.689
Description: Plaquette; fragment of pebble engraved on the obverse surface only with a reindeer's head facing left and sundry other lines, some of which are engraved with a multiple-tipped point.
Cultures/periods: Magdalenian
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Peccadeau de l'Isle
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Montastruc
Materials: stone
Dimensions: Length: 8.50 centimetres; Thickness: 1.20 centimetres; Width: 6.50 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Sieveking 1987 / A Catalogue of Palaeolithic Art in the British Museum (689)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: reindeer
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Peccadeau de l'Isle
Funder name: Funded by: Christy Fund
Acquisition date: 1887
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: Palart.689