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Description: | Perforated stone pebble, length 103mm, width 70mm. Hole in the centre formed by pecking two parallel inverted cones from either side giving an hourglass shape cross-section. Either end is rounded. Artefacts such as these have been described as mace-heads in the past, examples of which have been found during excavation, these have been discovered in both Mesolithic and Neolithic contexts.
Date 8000-2100BC | 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: | -8000
-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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