Sample of breccia containing bone fragments and lithic artefacts

Details

• Title

  Sample of breccia containing bone fragments and lithic artefacts

• Associated place

  Europe › United Kingdom › Wales › Swansea City and County › Gower › Paviland Cave (place of excavation)

• Date

  Early Upper Palaeolithic Period (Britain) (c. 38,000 - c. 20,000 BP, c. 40,000 - 22,000 cal.BC)

• Material and technique

  bone, stone

• Material index

  organic › animal › bone;

  inorganic › stone

• Object type

  sample

• Dimensions

  11.7 x 7.7 cm (height x width)
  3.5 cm (length)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Purchased from Mrs A Peake in 1948, from the collection of Mr Arthur Edwin Peake.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1968.1744

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