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Description: | Rounded beach or stream pebble with damage from use as a hammer stone around one end. The stone is some form of quartzite and oval with one slightly wider end which had been used as a hammer. It is 75.5mm by 35.7mm wide by 15.0mm thick and weighs 66 grams. On it's own the use of this stone as a hammer stone is hard to date and could be from any date from the Late Paleolithic onwards.
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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