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Description: | A collection of 30 Mesolithic - Early Bronze Age worked flint flakes, found scattered over the field, which centres on the restricted 6-figure grid reference below. The collection includes an undatable thinning flake, which has later retouch (weighing 10.10g). The bulb of percussion still survives on this flake, although the knapper manipulated this part of the flint to make a sharp pointed end. The bulb has been heavily worked. The ripples (on the back of the flake) show where this flake was once removed from the original core. Later retouching is evident along the two cutting edges of this pointed end. The flake is 52.6mm in length and measures 23.4mm at its widest point. At it thickest point the flake measure 9.2mm. It is evident that many small flakes have been removed from the flake before it was removed from the core. Within the collection there is also a large lump of burnt flint (weighing 90g) and a (possible) Mesolithic flint core (weighing 87g). The core is very crude and has been badly damaged by (perhaps) the plough. Lots of small flakes have been removed from this core. There is some evidence of platform preparation and the core looks as though it my have been used as a hammering tool. The core measures c.42mm in height and the striking platform has a diameter of c. 38mm. The rest of the collection is made up of a miscellaneous assortment of Mesolithic - Early Bronze Age waste flakes. There is one large lump of flint weighing 250g. Nine of the flakes are a mid-greyish colour (weighing 89g), one is a mid-yellowish brown colour (same as the thinning flake) (weighing 13g), but the others (including the core and the large lump) are all black flint. In total the rest of the black flakes (16 pieces) weigh a total of 178g. In total the collection weighs 717g. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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