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Description: | Five scrappers, average size length 21mm, width 12mm, thickness 6mm. four of the artefacts have one arise on the dorsal and the fifth has two, soft hammered bulb on the ventral. Four of the objects are end scrappers and the example with two arises is a side and end scraper, all have direct semi-abrupt retouch. Two have a creamy patina, one has a light brown patina with a large creamy patch, and the last two has a creamy patina with grey patches. All are blades with scrappers knapped into them and date to the Late Mesolithic.
This is part of an assemblage that consists of;
1 Early Mesolithic blade. GLO-72CA98
1 Neolithic polished stone axe fragment. GLO-72AB32
2 Mesolithic awls. GLO-73F1A6
2 Neolithic to Late Bronze Age burins. GLO-746C51
3 Neolithic keeled cores. GLO-745308
3 Neolithic knifes. GLO-7449C1
3 Neolithic serrated pieces. GLO-745971
3 Neolithic to Bronze Age rods. GLO-7472B3
4 Neolithic leaf shaped arrowheads. GLO-746631
5 Bronze Age notched flakes. GLO-74C176
5 Mesolithic scrappers. GLO-73F9C6
6 Bronze Age awls. GLO-74C675
6 Neolithic awls. GLO-746995
10 Mesolithic cores GLO-73EBB7
12 Neolithic scrappers. GLO-742A83
17 Mesolithic to Neolithic blades. GLO-741F21
18 Bronze Age scrappers. GLO-7476D3
20 Frost damaged flints GLO-74CA62
26 Bronze Age miscellaneous retouched flints. GLO-74B2B6
26 Neolithic flakes. GLO-744072
26 Neolithic truncated flakes. GLO-743821
28 Mesolithic to Neolithic core fragments. GLO-7419B1
31 Mesolithic truncated blades. GLO-73F626
32 Fire damaged flints. GLO-74CFA4
35 Mesolithic blades. GLO-73FE02
40 Neolithic miscellaneous retouched flints. GLO-745A03
74 Mesolithic microlithis. GLO-74CFA4
657 waste flakes consisting of
59 Primary flakes. GLO-74D391
303 Secondary flakes. GLO-74DAE6
295 Tertiary flakes. GLO-74DDA4
19 Mesolithic microburins. GLO-DB05C3
total =1115 lithic implements | 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: | -6500
-3500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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