M0015583: Paleoliths from Thames valley / M0015583EB: Microburins

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Negative showing paleoliths from Thames valley

Two images on one negative: the first is Illustrations of paleoliths from Thames valley (backed knife of Acheulian make) and two small hand-axes from Chatelperron and Beauregard, France, published in an article by C. Batey in Archaeologia, volume 92, 1947. The second is a set of drawings of microburins, waste product from the crafting of lithic tools, published in Lacaille, A. D: "Scottish Micro-burins", Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol.76, 1942

December 1956

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the journal depicted in the glass plate negative

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.