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Description: | Flint unidirectional core, sub-oval in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile and section, with a single platform at the proximal end, and evidence for at least five flakes having been removed so that the core has formed an edge at the distal end, which has been retouched to create a blade or scraper.The core has been worked from a beach pebble but the toffee colour of the flint suggests that it is not local and may derive from the Tertiary flint gravels in Devon but would not have been transported to the west without human assistance (Dr Roger Taylor pers comm). The colour is similar to residual pebble flint found at Orleigh Court, near Bideford in Devon, where the chalk has been eroded away and the nodules rolled to create fluvial flint (John Newberry pers comm). All the cortex of the original pebble has been removed.Andrefsky (1998) illustrates a similar objective piece and unidirectional core on page 10, Fig.2.1, Letter (e).Bond (2004) illustrates as similar example on page 138, Fig.5.125, No.F8, which is dated to the earlier Neolithic.
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