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LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Unique ID: GLO-73F626
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Thirty one blades, largest length 45mm, width 13mm, thickness 4mm, smallest length 13mm, width 9mm, thickness 2mm. Approximately 60% have two arises on the dorsal, the other 40% have one arise. About 60% have a creamy patina, the rest have a light to mid grey patina and only one example is a dark brown flint with a patina starting to form. About 5% still have the remains of the cortex on the dorsal. These artefacts date to the Late Mesolithic.
This is part of an assemblage that consists of;
1 Early Mesolithic blade. GLO-72CA98
1 Neolithic polished stone axe fragment. GLO-72AB32
2 Mesolithic awls. GLO-73F1A6
2 Neolithic to Late Bronze Age burins. GLO-746C51
3 Neolithic keeled cores. GLO-745308
3 Neolithic knifes. GLO-7449C1
3 Neolithic serrated pieces. GLO-745971
3 Neolithic to Bronze Age rods. GLO-7472B3
4 Neolithic leaf shaped arrowheads. GLO-746631
5 Bronze Age notched flakes. GLO-74C176
5 Mesolithic scrappers. GLO-73F9C6
6 Bronze Age awls. GLO-74C675
6 Neolithic awls. GLO-746995
10 Mesolithic cores GLO-73EBB7
12 Neolithic scrappers. GLO-742A83
17 Mesolithic to Neolithic blades. GLO-741F21
18 Bronze Age scrappers. GLO-7476D3
20 Frost damaged flints GLO-74CA62
26 Bronze Age miscellaneous retouched flints. GLO-74B2B6
26 Neolithic flakes. GLO-744072
26 Neolithic truncated flakes. GLO-743821
28 Mesolithic to Neolithic core fragments. GLO-7419B1
31 Mesolithic truncated blades. GLO-73F626
32 Fire damaged flints. GLO-74CFA4
35 Mesolithic blades. GLO-73FE02
40 Neolithic miscellaneous retouched flints. GLO-745A03
74 Mesolithic microlithis. GLO-74CFA4
657 waste flakes consisting of
59 Primary flakes. GLO-74D391
303 Secondary flakes. GLO-74DAE6
295 Tertiary flakes. GLO-74DDA4
19 Mesolithic microburins. GLO-DB05C3
total =1115 lithic implements
Class:
blade
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Post 6500 BC
Date to: Ante 3500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 31
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 776
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked