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Description: | 10 lithic implements
1, Piercer, length 23mm, width 23mm, thickness 5mm. There is a bulb of percussion both the top and bottom surfaces. 10% cortex remains on the butt, the forward edge has concave retouch on either side forming a point. The retouch is scaled abrupt, the right side is direct whilst the left is inverse, dark bluish colour with patina starting to form. Date Neolithic.
2, Truncated scraper, length 20mm, width 16mm, thickness 7mm. The forward and left sides are retouched with abrupt, scaled direct flaking scars, the left side is broken, probably due to frost damage and may have been a semicircular scrapper, creamy grey patina, slight patina in the break. Date Neolithic.
3, Blade, length 20mm, width 11mm, thickness 6mm. One arise, soft hammered bulb on the ventral, the right blade has short parallel, direct retouch that is worn, Grey colour. Date Late Mesolithic.
4, Miscellaneous retouched piece, length 34mm, width 29mm, thickness 5mm. Two arises on the dorsal bulb is missing from the ventral, the left side has bifacial, short, sub-parallel retouch while the right has been damaged, this artefact may have been truncated. Dark grey patina with light grey speckles, date probably Neolithic.
5, Multiple platform core, length 29mm, width 29mm, thickness 21mm. Multifaceted, on all sided, only about 5% cortex remains, grey flint with lighter grey patches. Date probably Neolithic
6, 2 Primary flakes. Length 26mm width 19mm, thickness 3mm. One is a brown flint the other has a creamy patina and is water worn, both have more than 50% cortex remaining. Date prehistoric.
7, 2 Secondary flakes. Three dark grey colour, one has a grey patina, all have less then 50% cortex remaining. Date Prehistoric.
8, Tertiary flake, length 33mm, width 23mm, thickness 7mm. off white patina. Date prehistoric. | 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: | -500000
-500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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