Flake
EU797
From: England | Kent | Swanscombe | Galley Hill
Curatorial Section: European
| Object Number | EU797 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Middle Acheulian (uncertain) |
| Provenience | England | Kent | Swanscombe | Galley Hill |
| Period | Middle Acheulian (uncertain) |
| Section | European |
| Materials | Flint |
| Description | Original Card: Flint Implement - Percuteur or hammerstonoe. Heavy flake, shaped for convenient holding. England, Swanscombe, Galley Hill. Palaeolithic? Revised Card: Flint Flake. Thick, elongated. Roughly triangular in section. Natural flake. Yellow olive shiny patination. One side of upper face frost fractured. Other side very much battered with incipient cones of percussion. England, Kent, Swanscombe, Galley Hill. Middle Acheulian? |
| Length | 12.8 cm |
| Width | 5.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Mrs. Sidney Warrington, 1913 |
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