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Description: | Phil Watson (Principal Curator, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) identified the object being a possible Mesolithic core dating to -8300 to -3500. The core has been knapped from a dark grey/brown coloured flint.
The core has a front face which is a sub-triangle, with one edge forming a particularly oblique angle. In section it is also a sub-triangle. The core has received some relatively recent damage as there are large scars which have not been knapped on the base and on the upper oblique edge. The large vertical ?front? face has multiple negative linear scars, suggesting small blades had been created. The reverse and side face, unusually, has cortex remaining. The flint appears to be a good quality with no imperfections, and therefore perhaps no reason for the cortex to be still in place. Perhaps the core was unfinished.
The core measures 44.56mm long, 37.72mm wide and 35.15mm thick. It weighs 41.52g. | 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: | -8300
-3500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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