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Description: | Nine items of flint debitage. The items are likely to be prehistoric, probably dating from the mesolithic to the neolithic periods (c. 8300 BC to c. 2100 BC).1. Flake. Light grey coloured flint. Length: 33.6mm. Width: 31.9mm. Thickness: 8.7mm. A ridge on the dorsal face, with cortex to one side (about 50%). Bulb of percussion and conchoidal ripples on the ventral face.2. Irregular waste/core fragment. Length: 53.6mm. Width: 42.2mm. Thickness: 17.9mm. Mass: 35.1g. Grey/brown coloured flint. One face consists of approximately 30% cortex. There are also negative flake scars and ridges on this face. One negative scar (length: 28.9mm, width: 9.0mm) is blade shaped and the flint debitage recorded here may therefore have been used as a core. There are negative scars on the other face of the flint piece.3. Flake/irregular waste. Brown/grey flint. Non-cortical. Length: 35.7mm. Width: 26.2mm. Thickness: 10.2mm. Mass: 6.9g. Multiple negative scars on the dorsal face. Ventral face has a pronounced ridge, with conchoidal ripples to one side.4. Flake/irregular waste. Flint. Crazed grey/off-white surface - possibly caused by heat. Length: 33.9mm. Width: 35.5mm. Thickness: 9.1mm. Mass: 8.7mm. Non-cortical. Conchoidal ripples on the ventral face. Negative flake scars and ridges on the dorsal face.5. Broken end of a flake, possibly a blade. Light brown / off-white coloured flint. Non-cortical. Length 10.3mm. Width: 12.1mm. Thickness: 4.8mm. Mass: 0.6g. Multiple scars on the dorsal face.6. Flake. Off white coloured flint. Length: 17.0mm. Width: 14.4mm. Thickness: 4.8mm. Mass: 1.1g. Scars and ridges on the dorsal side. Diffuse bulb of percussion on the ventral face.7. Irregular waste. Triangular in section. Light grey/off white flint. Cortex covering one end. Length: 33.4mm. Width: 9.6mm. Thickness: 8.9mm. Mass: 3.5g.8. Broken blade. Non-cortical. Light grey/off-white coloured flint. Length: 26.1mm. Width: 18.6mm. Thickness: 4.3mm. Mass: 2.3g. Pronounced vertical ridge running down the ventral face with negative scars at either side. Conchoidal ripples on ventral face. Proximal end missing.9. Flake. Light brown flint. 25.2mm. Width: 15.1mm. Thickness: 5.2mm. Mass: 2.0g. Dorsal side is entirely cortex. Ventral side has conchoidal ripples and a very diffuse bulb of percussion, with cortex visible at the edges.
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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