Flake
Category
Natural History / Geology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Flint
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303899
Summary
Thirty-seven flint flakes. Lord Egerton's number 229H. Associated label. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Egerton collection devised to the National Trust in 1960 by Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874-1958).
Marks and inscriptions
Associated label. Flint Flakes. These have been sruck off larger lumps in the manufacture of implements. One or two show shaping as if for use as knives or spear heads. Jebel Rahib. Libyan Desert.