MP Gallery - Warlingham, Surrey, England - Pipe Plateau, High Plateau, and CCC Gully; j) rattlens

Identification (Ron Williams): This is a quartz, hollowed out inside, in which were small pebbles. Given the surrounding sites and artifacts, appears to have been used as rattle, perhaps in shamanic rites.

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).