Flint burin

Details

• Title

  Flint burin

• 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

  flint

• Material index

  inorganic › mineral › silica › flint

• Object type

  tool/implement › burin (stone tool)

• Dimensions

  4.8 x 1.5 cm (height x width)
  1.8 x 1 cm (height x width)

• 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.

  AN1968.1713

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