David Heys Lithics Collection
Keith Boughey, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5284/1062863. 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: 3525
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1062863
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Overview
The collection, of 1849 pieces, consists almost entirely of a wide range of worked prehistoric tools, mostly in flint, covering the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, including huge numbers of microliths, arrowheads (barbed-and-tanged, British oblique, kite-shaped, leaf-shaped, transverse i.e. chisel), awls, (polished) axeheads and axehead fragments (both flint and Group VI Langdale tuff), blades, borers, hammerstones, plano-convex knives, points, pottery sherds, scrapers and utilised flakes.
Heys collected only what he believed to be worked pieces, ignoring waste, though inevitably some waste is present. All were collected from either the ploughed surface of cultivated fields or from erosion patches on moorland, as a result of many repeated visits. Apart from the Early Bronze Age grave assemblage, no excavation was ever done. Perhaps the single most striking item in the whole collection is a complete battle axe from this assemblage. There are also large numbers of worked jet pieces and fragments from the Early Bronze Age, mostly fastenings of one form or another or items of jewellery (beads, buttons, 'napkin' or 'pulley' rings etc.).
