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Description: | Bronze Age black chert tool, banded with limestone. Probably a heavy duty borer or similar as the 'pointy end' is high quality black chert. It may possibly be a core but its hard to envisage why the knapper be striking flakes from the limestone apart from doing it to produce a shape. Probably Bronze Age due to comparitive crudeness of knapping, but could be anytime from the early Mesolithic to the late Bronze Age. Dating between c8300 and c800 BC, most likely c1500 to c800 BC.The length is 40mm, width 40mm, thickness 30mm, and the weight is 56.8g.
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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