Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10869

    ‘Flint implements from Kent’s Cavern’

    Date
    1880s
    Creator
    Arthur Roope Hunt (1843 - 1914, British) , Geologist
    Object type
    Library reference
    45424
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 179mm
    width (print): 125mm
    Subject
    Description
    Four human-made flint tools from the cave excavations at Kent’s Cavern Torquay, England.

    Extra original illustration to the article “On photographing objects for book illustrations”, by A R Hunt.

    The printed text appears within a larger set of collected papers written by Hunt 1873-1889 and owned by his schoolfellow John William Strutt (1842-1919) 3rd Baron Rayleigh, a President of the Royal Society. The photograph has an inscription in ink, verso: “Flint implements from Kent’s Cavern (Cave earth)”.

    Arthur Roope Hunt was a Fellow of the Geological Society and the Linnean Society. He helped in the Torquay excavations led by William Pengelly FRS (1812-1894).
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