Geoffrey and Margaret Appleyard Lithics Collection
Keith Boughey, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5284/1062836. How to cite using this DOI
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Keith
Boughey
Church Bank
Church Hill
Hall Cliffe
Baildon, W. Yorks
BD17 6NE
Resource identifiers
- ADS Collection: 3522
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1062836
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Overview
The collection of 3673 pieces consists of 2896 worked tools and fragments and 777 pieces of debitage, dating from the Early Mesolithic to the Bronze Age, a period stretching over 5000 years. The worked pieces include 101 arrowheads (petit tranchet, kite-shaped, leaf-shaped, barbed-and-tanged, chisel and British oblique), 85 awls/borers, 5 axes and axe fragments, 20 blades, a single burin, 26 chopping tools,101 cores, 14 fabricators, 1666 worked flakes, a fossil, 5 hammerstones, a macehead, 25 microliths, 2 pottery sherds, 129 saws (denticulate pieces), 702 scrapers, and 12 unidentified pieces (possibly all axe fragments).
The Mesolithic components of the collection are especially interesting as the collecting area is barely 10km up the Derwent Valley from the celebrated site of Star Carr and may well be casual losses from summer hunting grounds associated with the site.
Thanks to Margaret Appleyard and the depositor and especially to Paula Gentil, then Keeper of Archaeology, the collection has since 2011 rested with Hull Museums.
