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Description: | A collection of seven worked flints (collective weight: 54.96g), as listed below: 1. One core rejuvenation flake, dating from the Mesolithic ? Neolithic period between c. 8000 ? 2200 BC. The flake has numerous dorsal scars and is struck off and ?rejuvenated?, therefore creating a fresh flaking bed on the core face, and prepares the core platform and face for further removals. 2. One core rejuvenation flake, dating from the Neolithic ? Bronze Age period between c. 4000 ? 2200 BC. As No. 1. 3. One piercer/ awl, dating to the Bronze Age between c. 2200 ? 800 BC. A retouched form with a narrow projection used for piercing or for a rotating action. 4. One end and side scraper, dating to the Bronze Age between c. 2200 ? 800 BC. There are multiple arrises on the dorsal and retouch on part of the distal and mesial edge. 5. One ?fabricator? or rod on a long thin flake, dating to the late Neolithic ? early Bronze Age between c. 3000 ? 1800 BC. A D-shaped sectioned artefact which has been worked on both sides with coarse sporadic re-touch along the edges. 6. One miscellaneous worked piece, dating from the Bronze Age ? late Iron Age between c. 2200 ? 200 BC. 7. One miscellaneous worked piece, dating from the Bronze Age between 2200 ? 800 BC. | 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: | -8000
-200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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