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Description: | Five worked / knapped pieces of flint debitage of later Mesolithic to early Neolithic date, circa 7000 - 3500 BC. Areas of cortex survive on all 5 pieces of debitage indicating that they are from the secondary phase of working on the core.Row 1 / column 1:- Sub square in plan and lentoid in cross section. No patination present. Flint is even mid brown / grey in colour, fine grained and translucent at the edges. Short, scaled, cross-abrupt retouch present on one of the long edges which has been abraded by movement in the plough soil. Bulb of percussion and bulbal scar present on the ventral face.Length: 26.65mm. Width: 26.21mm. Thickness: 11.46mm. Weight:7.9gRow 1 / column 2:- Sickle shaped in plan and D-shaped in cross section. No patination present. Flint is an even light grey / brown colour, fine grained and translucent. Extensive plough damage along the dorsal edges. Shallow bulb of percussion and faint conchoidal ripples present on the ventral face.Length: 32.53mm. Width: 19.40mm. Thickness: 3.73mm. Weight: 2.6gRow 1 / column 3:- Irregular in plan and triagular in cross section. No patination. Flint is an even mid brown / grey in colour, medium grained and translucent at the edges. No retouch. Extensive plough damage on the ventral face. Conchoidal ripples present on the ventral face.Length: 23.74mm. Width: 15.81mm. Thickness: 4.49mm. Weight: 1.9gRow 2 / column 1:- U-shaped in plan and irregular in cross section. Even mid grey patination present. The flint is even mid brown in colour, fine grained and opaque. No retouch. Conchoidal ripples present on ventral face.Length: 24.11mm. Width: 19.35mm. Thickness: 7.35mm. Weight: 2.5gRow 2 / column 2:- Irregular in plan and lentoid in cross section. No patination. The flint is an even mid brown colour, medium grained and opaque. No retouch. Conchoidal ripples present on ventral face.Length: 15.54mm. Width: 14.07mm. Thickness: 3.79mm. Weight: 0.8gA 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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