CORN-6C0C67: Neolithic flint flake (dorsal)

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FLAKE

Unique ID: CORN-6C0C67

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Flint conchoidal flake with smooth conchoidal fractures rippling along the ventral face away from the bulbar scar, or bulb of percussion, and similarly on the dorsal face, within the negative flake scar. There is retouch from the proximal end, down the right edge of the dorsal face, but the denticulations down the same edge on the ventral face look more like the resultant damage. This might have then been used as a crude saw, but there is no evidence of use wear, unless that is what has caused the damage to the proximal end. The colour of the flint is a mottled mid to dark grey. No cortex remains on the surface of the flake, which suggests that it is a tertiary flake. The length to breadth ratio is about 1:1. Andrefsky (1998), illustrates a similar conchoidal flake on page 16, Fig. 2.6(d). Bond (2004) illustrates a similar but larger flake on page 140, Fig.5.126, No.7, which is dated to the Later Neolithic.

Subsequent actions

Current location of find: returned to finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Date from: 2700 BC
Date to: 2100 BC

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 29 mm
Width: 25 mm
Thickness: 4.2 mm
Weight: 3.98 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Monday 2nd August 2004

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Marazion (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SW5230
Four figure Latitude: 50.118155
Four figure longitude: -5.470573
1:25K map: SW5230
1:10K map: SW50NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Chance find during metal detecting
Current location: returned to finder
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Andrefsky, W.	1998	Lithics	Cambridge	Cambridge University Press	16, Fig. 2.6,	(d)
Bond, C.	2005	PAS Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics	London	The Portable Antiquities Scheme	140, Fig.5.126,	No.7

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Created: 18 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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