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Description: | Six awls, average size length 22mm, width 17mm, thickness 6mm. Half have one arise on the dorsal, one has two and the last two have multiple flaking scars, all have a soft hammered bulb of percussion on the ventral. All have point that have been knapped on one edge, this consists of semi-abrupt, direct, parallel flaking scars that create a point, one has bifacial retouch. Three have a creamy patina, one has a brown patina, one a grey patina and the last is a brown flint with a creamy patina forming, three have about 30% cortex. These artefacts date to the Bronze Age. This is part of an assemblage that consists of; 1 Early Mesolithic blade. GLO-72CA98 1 Neolithic polished stone axe fragment. GLO-72AB32 2 Mesolithic awls. GLO-73F1A6 2 Neolithic to Late Bronze Age burins. GLO-746C51 3 Neolithic keeled cores. GLO-745308 3 Neolithic knifes. GLO-7449C1 3 Neolithic serrated pieces. GLO-745971 3 Neolithic to Bronze Age rods. GLO-7472B3 4 Neolithic leaf shaped arrowheads. GLO-746631 5 Bronze Age notched flakes. GLO-74C176 5 Mesolithic scrappers. GLO-73F9C6 6 Bronze Age awls. GLO-74C675 6 Neolithic awls. GLO-746995 10 Mesolithic cores GLO-73EBB7 12 Neolithic scrappers. GLO-742A83 17 Mesolithic to Neolithic blades. GLO-741F21 18 Bronze Age scrappers. GLO-7476D3 20 Frost damaged flints GLO-74CA62 26 Bronze Age miscellaneous retouched flints. GLO-74B2B6 26 Neolithic flakes. GLO-744072 26 Neolithic truncated flakes. GLO-743821 28 Mesolithic to Neolithic core fragments. GLO-7419B1 31 Mesolithic truncated blades. GLO-73F626 32 Fire damaged flints. GLO-74CFA4 35 Mesolithic blades. GLO-73FE02 40 Neolithic miscellaneous retouched flints. GLO-745A03 74 Mesolithic microlithis. GLO-74CFA4 657 waste flakes consisting of 59 Primary flakes. GLO-74D391 303 Secondary flakes. GLO-74DAE6 295 Tertiary flakes. GLO-74DDA4 19 Mesolithic microburins. GLO-DB05C3 total =1115 lithic implements
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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