Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: PUBLIC-DFC4A2
Object type certainty: Certain
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Flint flake, sub triangular in plan and bent lozenge in profile. The dorsal side appears to be a single flake with a sharp serrated upper left margin. Both the upper right margin and proximal ends are snapped. On the ventral side the proximal end has some small flake removal.
The flint is has pale mottled putty coloured tones.
Mercer (1981) illustrates a similar example on page 131, Fig. 57, No. L. 110 which is dated to the Neolithic period.
Current location of find: ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4500 BC
Date to: Circa 2100 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 17.95 mm
Width: 15.77 mm
Thickness: 2.69 mm
Weight: 0.7 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 2004 - Saturday 31st January 2004
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Other reference: 5.18
Museum accession number: TRURI 2011.23
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SW4627
Four figure Latitude: 50.088689
Four figure longitude: -5.552343
1:25K map: SW4627
1:10K map: SW47SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Mercer, R.J. | 1981 | Excavations at Carn Brea, Illogan, Cornwall, 1970-73 | Callington | Penwell Ltd. | 131, Fig. 57 | L. 110 |