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Description: | Three Bronze Age Awls of varying shapes and sizes. The largest is a triangular shaped flake that has been fabricated in such a way as to possibly form two workable points. The larger of the potential points has become broken at some time and may once have been c. 20mm longer than its present length of c. 30mm. This protrusion is 16.3mm wide and 12.0mm thick. The other point is set at approximately 90 degrees to the first and is much thinner and shorter. the third point of the triangle is unworked. The flint has a well developed white patina over buff-brown flint (revealed where damaged). A large patch of cortex remains on the dorsal surface. The tool measures 73.22mm long, 70.18mm wide, 28.20mm thick and weighs 95.31g.
The second awl is also triangular in shape but smaller, measuring 44.65mm long, 40.48mm wide, 19.19mm thick and weighs 24.65g. The ventral surface is flat and the dorsal surface is steeply ridged (almost tetrahedral). The flint is light brownish-grey in colour.
The third awl is much flatter and sub-rectangular in shape, with a fine triangular point protruding from the distal end. The ventral surface is smooth with a bulb of percussion and the dorsal surface is irregular with some cortex remaining. The flint has a speckled blueish-white patina and measures 45.75mm long, 29.24mm wide, 10.45mm thick and weighs 15.70g. The group weighs 135.63g in total. | 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: | 2150
800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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