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Description: | A worked / knapped flint notched blade dating to the Later Mesolithic period, circa 7000-4000 BC. Trapezoidal with a pointed end in plan and sub-triangular in cross section. No cortex present indicating that it is a tertiary blade. A little light grey / blue patination present. The flint is medium grained and opaque, and a mottled light brown / yellow colour. The dorsal and ventral faces of the blade are hard to discern but the longest edge of the blade has a short, scaled, low angled retouch creating a clearly defined notch.Length: 24.45mm. Width: 9.71mm. Thickness: 4.92mm. Weight: 1.27gA preliminary interpretation of the flints, prior to recording, by P Reavil is that the assemblage is indicative of a site used sporadically / periodically in the later Mesolithic period and more intensively in the Neolithic with the core use of the site being between Early - Middle Neolithic 4,000 BC - 2750 BC. With sporadic use in Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age. (pers. comm. P. Reavil, March 2014)
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