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Description: | Chunk of tabular greenstone, semi-circular in plan, and pentagonal in profile and rectangular in section. The upper face has been weathered to a smooth flat surface and the base has been ground flat and one end tapers to a rounded rough edge, suggesting some possible coarse hammerstone use. Such pieces do turn up on domestic sites but not in any quantity compared to mullers and rubbers. On these objects the waterworn cobble surfaces are all fresh and unweathered, appropriate for selection from a beach during the Neolithic. The beach selection would ensure hard enduring pieces. It is quite possible that the wear on these objects has been caused by grinding pieces in the axe manufacture process (Henrietta Quinnell, Clodgy Moor stonework, forthcoming).Examples of hammerstones have been found on Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Cornwall, such as the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age site at Stannon Down, St Breward, illustrated in Jones (2008) on page 91, Fig.31, Nos.SF20 & SF40, and the Middle Bronze Age site at Scarcewater, St Stephens, illustrated in Jones and Taylor (2010) on page 122, Fig.60, No.226.
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