NARC-56E1B7: Lithic industry: Possible Tortoisehell core

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CORE

Unique ID: NARC-56E1B7

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

3 fragments of core from probable Middle Palaeolithic flint industry. The fragments are of a deep, ginger flint, and may represent the production of a 'tortoise shell' core,charateristic of Levallois style tool production, in which cores are carefully worked before tools such as blades and scrapers are flaked away from them. The tools themselves then only need minimal retouching in order to ready them for use.

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Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
Period from: PALAEOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: 50 BC
Date to: 3500 BC

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 3

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Materials and construction

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

Spatial metadata

Region: East Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: Daventry (District)
Parish or ward: Stowe IX Churches (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SP6456
Four figure Latitude: 52.198527
Four figure longitude: -1.06503
1:25K map: SP6456
1:10K map: SP65NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

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Recording Institution: NARC
Created: 16 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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