Levallois flake

Details

• Title

  Levallois flake

• Associated people

  the Reverend James Charles Clutterbuck (1801 - 1885) (field collector)

• Associated place

  Europe › United Kingdom › England › Oxfordshire › South Oxfordshire District › Long Wittenham (gravel from the Thames) (find spot)

• Date

  Late Middle Palaeolithic Period. late MIS 4 -MIS 3 (British Mousterian) (c. 64,000 - c. 40,000 years ago)

• Material and technique

  flint

• Material index

  inorganic › mineral › silica › flint

• Object type

  production/replication › flake › levallois flake

• Dimensions

  7 cm (height)
  7.8 cm (width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Arthur Evans, from the collection of Sir John Evans.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1928.61

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