Cecil Woodward Lithics Collection

Lithic collection amassed by the late Cecil Woodward, a resident of Shipley in West Yorkshire, who was an amateur and entirely self-taught collector of prehistoric flints. The collection currently resides with Woodward's former partner, Olive Bardsey, at her home in Shipley, West Yorkshire, which is where the depositor was able to see, identify, catalogue and photograph it. Nothing of this collection has ever been published, referred to or even hinted at in any published work. As with so many similar private lithics collections, the intention is to at least bring it into and secure it for the archaeological record which will add to and enhance our understanding of those areas in which the lithics were collected, which in turn should bring it to the attention of both the archaeological community and the wider public, and hopefully even see it or at least some part of it finally published