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DEBITAGE
Unique ID: HAMP-2FDCD4
Object type certainty: Certain
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Forty-nine pieces of tertiary Mesolithic flint waste (debitage) from an assemblage, not diagnostically blade forms or core rejuvenation flakes. They have a wide variety of shapes and sizes, but none exhibit any obvious retouch. They are mostly of light or mid-grey flint, with some bluer and browner hues. Most are between 20 and 30mm long, with some small chippings and some larger flakes (up to 58.6mm). A few pieces show the crazed surface characteristic of fire cracking.
Notes:
This forms part of a Mesolithic assemblage with a fairly balanced mixture of 'crude' microliths and some retouched forms (some possible scrapers and casually retouched flakes. Alongside a core are core rejuvenation flakes, together with numerous unworked blades and bladelets. Many of the blades have been snapped, leaving microburins and other snapped portions. There is a large proportion of miscellaneous waste, some of which shows evidence of fire cracking (this record). Found in the vicinity was a scraper probably of Neolithic date.
Thanks are extended to Grant Williams of Sussex Archaeological Society for his help with identifications.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 8500 BC
Date to: Circa 4000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 49
Weight: 162 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: E2809
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: East Hampshire (District)
Parish or ward: Kingsley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU7938
Four figure Latitude: 51.135833
Four figure longitude: -0.872253
1:25K map: SU7938
1:10K map: SU73NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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