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Description: | Ten flint single-platform micro-blade cores, of similar size and shape, generally oval in plan and sub-rectangular in profile and section. All faces around the circumference of the cores show the scars from the flake removal for producing microliths, from the edges of the layers of cortex remaining on each core.
The flint is a mottled light to dark grey colour which suggests, along with the curvature of the cores, that they have been derived from local beach pebbles. The length to breadth ratio is about 1:1, which is usual for micro cores. The measurements below represent the average size and the total weight of all ten cores.
Bond (2004) illustrates similar examples on page 103, Fig.5.87, No.1, dated to the Early Mesolithic period, and on page 113, Fig.5.97, No.L20, dated to the Later Mesolithic period. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tyacke, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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