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Description: | Three serrated blades, average size length 39mm, width 14mm, thickness 4mm. One arise on the dorsal which on two of the objects splits into two. All have a series of soft hammered nicks taken out of both blades, down their length creating a serrated blade, on two of the examples this is direct on the third this is inverse. Two have a light grey patina, one has a light brown. All date to the Neolithic, Probably the Early Neolithic.
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: | -3500
-2100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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