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Description: | A multi-platform broad flake core on an opaque mottled cream and light grey flint pebble. Further progress has been hampered by deep flaws. A flat but rough facet has been formed into the edge. Experiments by G. Hill(forthcoming) have demonstrated that hammerstones develop flat facets of this nature when used to strike glancing blows when 'pecking' granite or local greenstone. It is suggested that this hammerstone was used to shape greenstone axes. Butler(2005) illustrates a similar core on page 180, fig 74, 1.
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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