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Description: | Small bladed cobble, probably metamorphosed slate, oblong in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile, and plano-convex in section. One face has been ground to a flat surface, probably for rubbing or whetstone use, with some flakes having been removed along the edge of the stone. This is one of a group of cobbles found in the same area, made of various materials, that were used as domestic artefacts such as mullers, rubbers and whetstones. All of these would be at home on a Middle Bronze Age settlement. Unfortunately we know insufficient about the range of stone artefacts used in Neolithic Cornwall to make any definitive statement. Obviously the whetstones could not be of this date but there seems no reason why the other artefacts could not be Neolithic. This group has not been examined by Roger Taylor, and provisional identifications are being provided by Henrietta Quinnell (Henrietta Quinnell, Clodgy Moor stonework, forthcoming).Examples of whetstones have been found on Bronze Age sites in Cornwall, such as the Earlier Bronze Age site at Stannon Down, St Breward, illustrated in Jones (2008) on page 95, Fig.32, No.SF256, and the Middle Bronze Age settlement at Trethellan, Newquay, illustrated in Nowakowski (1991) on page 147, Fig.61, No.96.
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