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Description: | Forty miscellaneous retouched pieces, average size length 31mm, width 17mm, thickness 5mm. About 20% have one arises on the dorsal 40% have two and the rest have multiple flaking scars. All examples of bulbs of percussion that survive on the ventral are soft hammered. All have been retouched with short, low angled flaking scars, most are direct but about 20% are inverse. Twelve have a creamy patina, three have a light grey patina, eleven have a creamy patina with grey patches, eleven have a grey patina with darker patches and three are dark grey flints with a patina starting to form. All date to the 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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