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Description: | Group of 82 worked flints. The flint quality is variable but probably mainly small scale localised material (80% have cortex). The assemblage is very flake based and is therefore no earlier in date than late Neolithic. The arrowhead is early Bronze Age and it is possible that the other flakes are also early Bronze Age in date, though a crudeness of technique seems to suggest a slightly later date too.
1-2: Squat flakes, one with hinge fracture, both patinated.
3-6: Four flakes made from earlier patinated struck flints.
7-10: Four patinated flakes with later unpatinated edge retouch.
11: Barbed and tanged flint arrowhead (see image). Incomplete; the ends of both barbs are missing, but it is well made and has all-over bifacial working. Both edges are straight and the tang is sub-rectangular. The flint is mid-grey in colour.
12: Fragment of a bifacially worked sub-rectangular black flint (see image). Possibly a snapped blank for a barbed and tanged arrowhead, bifacial knife or dagger butt.
13-14: Two blades.
15-19: Five scrapers.
20: Primary long flake with hinge fracture.
21-25: Five squat flakes with hinge fractures.
26-27: Two snapped flakes.
28-41: 14 squat flakes.
42: Flake with hinge fracture.
43-53: 11 flakes
54: Thick crudely retouched flake with traces of possible percussion in one area, possibly utilised flake off hammerstone.
55-61: 7 flakes with retouched notches.
62-82: 21 retouched flakes, mainly irregular and thick. | 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 | Temporal: | -2500
-800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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