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Description: | A worked / knapped flint blade of later Mesolithic date, circa 7000 - 4000 BC. The flint is broadly rectangular in plan and sub triangular in cross section. A small amount of cortex is present indicating that it is from the secondary phase of working of the core. Light speckled patination present on all surfaces of the flint. The flint is even dark brown in colour, fine grained and opaque. Short, scaled, semi-abrupt retouch present on one side of the dorsal face. A stricking platform and shallow bulb of percussion are present on the ventral face. Conchoidal ripples not discernible due to wear caused by plough roll.Length: 36.73mm. Width: 17.73mm. Thickness: 7.82mm. Weight: 5.33gA 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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