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Description: | Flat tabular block of fine quartzite, sub-rectangular in plan, profile and in section. Both surfaces are waterworn with patches of iron staining and some shallow concavities due to damage. There are also areas of grinding, particularly on the base and the sides, where there are shallow grinding grooves, which suggest that it was probably used as a whetstone. 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 similar tabular stones 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 91, Fig.31, No.SF40, and the Late Bronze Age site at Scarcewater, St Stephens, illustrated in Jones and Taylor (2010) on page 129, Fig.66, No.505.
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