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Description: | Forty eight pieces of flint debitage. Flint from a range of sources including pebble and nodule flint. Colours from translucent buff to dark grey-black including mottled pieces (possibly some from weathering). A few have evidence of burning and many have frost damage and natural damage as well as deliberate working. Only sixteen are secondary pieces with no primary pieces, the remaining thirty two pieces are tertiary with no cortex. At least ten (the top three rows in group 1) are the product of a blade industry showing fine parallel removals of narrow pieces off a prepared core although all are broken or waste pieces from this process. The lower ten (rows 3 and 4 in Group 3 and group 4) could be qualified as core chunks as they are larger and thicker than the chips and blade/flake fragments and some have parts of working platforms. Some may be post-deposition breaks from a core or even cores that have suffered a large amount of post depositional damage from burning and frost shatter although some appear to be deliberate or accidental removals during working. The mixture of shapes and multiple working directions as well as the associated cores and retouched pieces suggests a probable Later Neolithic to Bronze Age date with possibly some earlier Mesolithic-Neolithic blade industry.Total weight 191 grams.
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