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Unique ID: LANCUM-13D1D8
Object type certainty: Certain
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Nearly opaque, pale grey grading to white, worked quartz or quartzite. It has probably been made by working a pebble removed or eroded out of the native millstone grit. The shape of the tool has been formed with 5 major flakes and a number of smaller ones. Two of the edges have been retouched by microflaking. The edges remains sharp. It was possibly mounted at the end of a stick, bone or similar. The photograph has been taken so that the two retouched edges are pointing up. The unusual choice of knapping material, given the local abundance of good quality chert, may have accorded this tool special significance. Probably Neolithic (c3500 to c2100 BC) in date but tools of this material are hard to date due to the knapping technique required. It could date anywhere between c6500 and c1100 BC. The artifact was found eroding out of a peat bank in a deep clough, about 625mm below the current surface, in lens of flat stones seated horizontally in the peat. It was a further 300mm to the underlying boulder clay. A significant amount of brown to caramel flint debitage and waste was found last year, by a walker, about 600 yards further down the clough.
The length is 18mm, width 11mm, thickness 6mm, and the weight is 1.06g.
Class: quartzite
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 6500 BC
Date to: Circa 1100 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 18 mm
Width: 11 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight: 1.06 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 2nd February 2013
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Primary material: Stone
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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