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Description: | An assemblage of 107 good quality patinated and unpatinated lithic implements but poor quality knapping with thick and irregular flakes, occasional obture striking platforms, incipient cones of percussion and flakes on non-bulbar face struck at alternate angles. 32.8% of the unpatinated flakes have hinge fractures and 11.7% of the patinated flakes have hinge fractures. This lends support to the presence of a small probably early Bronze Age element (patinated) with the majority of the assemblage being of later Bronze Age or Iron Age date.
Patinated examples
1: Multi-platformed largish flake core, possibly stained medium brown and lightly patinated
2: Multi-platformed irregular flake core, possibly stained dark brown.
3: Deeply patinated flake, may be natural, with unpatinated crude edge retouch.
4-5: 2 stained patinated medium brown long thick flakes.
6: Lightly patinated primary flake.
7-11 and 39: 6 patinated flakes, 3 long 2 squat.
12: Patinated long thick flake with ihnge fracture.
13-17 and 37: 6 lightly patinated retouched flakes, 1 squat, 1 hinge fractured.
18: 1 lightly patinated squat flake with retouched notch.
19: 1 heavily patinated oval scraper with unpatinated retouch.
20-21: 2 heavily patinated flakes with unpatinated retouch, 1 notched.
Unpatinated examples
22-28, 35-36: 9 scrapers, simple and crude, mainly steep edge retouch, 1 hinge fractured, 1 squat.
29: Crudely struck primary flake with relatively fine though limited edge retouch.
30: Irregular multi-platformed flake core with incipient cones of percussion. | 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: | -2150
-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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