MP Gallery - Warlingham, Surrey, England - Pipe Plateau, High Plateau, and CCC Gully; b) skullfemalepipe

Identification (Ron Williams): Acheulian biface, female figurine, with vulva-womb and head looking up toward right; obverse skull-like. Flint.

Comment (James Harrod): This is a stunning artistic and spiritual combination, the Acheulian tradition birth-giver juxtaposed with death, the death-giver. The birth-giver appears to be looking up at the sky, perhaps the stars as a source of conception.

Photo © Ron Williams, collected by Ron Williams. The site is documented in Williams, R. (1987). Beestachtig en Beregoed (II): Steentijdtradities en rituele vuursteenskulpturen van Surrey, Engeland door Ron Williams. Archaeologische Berichten 18:13-38 (Elst, NL).