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Description: | A flake core on a grey piece of nodular flint.From a single striking platform, after edge abrasion a mixture of flakes and blades have been removed; some being stopped short by step terminations. Nodular flint suggests that the material is a Later Neolithic import from Devon. Before then local redeposited pebble flint was almost the only source in West cornwall. The flaked face near to the striking platform has gloss, suggesting re-use as a scraper. There are other local examples of glossed cores; some with developed 'comet shaped pits', attributed by some authorities to cereals processing.(Yerkes,2003).Bond,C.J.2004 illustrates a core with flakes removed part way around on p.138, fig.5.125,2.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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