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Description: | Flint unidirectional core, semi-circular in plan and section and square in profile, with a single platform at the proximal end, and evidence for at least ten flakes having been removed so that the core has formed a jagged edge at the proximal end, but this has not been retouched to create a 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). Part of the outer skin or cortex of the pebble remains covering the distal end of the core.Andrefsky (1998) illustrates a similar polyhedral core on page 13, Fig.2.3, Letter (f).Bond (2004) illustrates as similar example on page 138, Fig.5.125, No.F11, which is dated to the earlier Neolithic.
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