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Description: | Nineteen microburins, largest length 15mm, width 10mm, thickness 3mm, smallest length 6mm, width 6mm, thickness 1mm. These are the butts of microlithis and are waste products from the manufacturing process. Most have one arise on the dorsal. All have either concave retouch on one of the corners, which would have facilitated the removal of the point from the butt, or this area is snapped without the retouch. About 70% have a light grey patina, 15% have a creamy patina and the rest have a mid grey patina. These artefacts 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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