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CORE
Unique ID: SOM-5D0DA4
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Two fragments of knapped flint cores.
Fragment one is from a multiplatform core which has been heavily worked down to a small remnant by the removal of flakes. Mid grey flint with paler mottling, 29.8 grams.
Fragment 2 is from the side of a larger core which has been worked in parallel strikes from one platform to produce blades. A step part way down has been created by blades breaking off short and this maybe a core refreshment flake taken off to remove this step. cream cortex remains down one side covering c.15% of the surface. The flint is dark grey with paler mottling and it weighs 32.7 grams.
The two fragments may be from seperate periods of activity or represent different stages in the same process which involved removing blades and then small flakes from the remnants of cores. They are probably Neolithic to earlier Bronze Age in date although a Mesolithic date cannot be ruled out for the piece used to produce blades.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 3500 BC
Date to: Circa 1500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 2
Weight: 62.5 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 11th November 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC 020755
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
Parish or ward: Winsham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST3507
Four figure Latitude: 50.858842
Four figure longitude: -2.924878
1:25K map: ST3507
1:10K map: ST30NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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