Stone tools in England
Stone tools are an important and sizeable part of the overall Pitt Rivers Museum's collections, and what is true for the collections as a whole is also true for the English collections in the Museum. Stone tools represent over a quarter of the entire collections in the Museum and over one in three of every English object is a stone tool (actually 39.4 per cent). Here are the most important counties in descending order:
|
County |
number of stone tools only |
% of all English stone tools (15,786) |
|
Oxfordshire |
3,242 |
20.5 |
|
Suffolk |
1,999 |
12.6 |
|
Wiltshire |
1,832 |
11.6 |
|
Bedfordshire |
1,612 |
10.2 |
|
Surrey |
1,150 |
7.2 |
|
Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
1,109 |
7 |
|
Kent |
963 |
6.1 |
|
All Sussex |
940 |
5.9 |
|
Norfolk |
614 |
3.8 |
|
London [Greater] |
491 |
3.1 |
|
All Yorkshire |
482 |
3 |
|
Devon |
369 |
2.3 |
|
Dorset |
193 |
1.2 |
|
Somerset |
166 |
1 |
|
Essex |
160 |
1 |
There are also objects from Berkshire, Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire but these form less than one per cent of the English stone tool collections in the Pitt Rivers Museum each.
NB this table does not include stone weapons or stone tools or weapons (where use is not certain)