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Description: | 14 lithic implements
1, Microlith fragment. One side has retouch that has blunted one side. The tip has been snapped, this is an old break. This date to the Late Mesolithic.
2, Two semicircular scrappers. Slight remains bulb of percussion on the ventral. forward edge has scaled, abrupt, direct retouch. Mid grey colour with lighter patches, patina starting to form, the other is slightly darker with cortex covering much of the dorsal. Date Neolithic.
3, Two scrapers. One is triangular in shape with retouch down two sides that other is square with retouch down all four. No bulb of percussion on the ventral. The retouch is has scaled, abrupt, direct retouch. Mid grey colour with lighter patches, patina starting to form. Date Bronze Age.
4, Two awls. One has 70% cortex on the left side, both have short low angled retouch down one side of a point, the retouch on the artefact with the cortex in inverse. Both are mid grey colour with lighter patches, patina starting to form. Date Neolithic.
5, Five miscellaneous retouched pieces; All have been retouched with short, low angled flaking scars. Two are a grey flint with a patina forming the other three have creamy patinas the retouch has removed the patina, therefore these have been reused. All are probably Bronze Age.
6, Two Tertiary flakes. Mid grey colour. Date prehistoric. These are waste flakes from the manufacturing process. | 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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