Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: PUBLIC-061773
Object type certainty: Certain
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Flint pebble scraper, round in plan and plano convex in profile. The left, distal and right margins have been retouched for use as an end and side scraper. The cortex covers 1-49% of the surface area and it is a brown grey smoke with cream flecks in colour.
Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 126, Fig. 5.113, No. 5 which is dated to the Neolithic period.
Current location of find: ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4500 BC
Date to: Circa 2100 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.56 mm
Width: 29.19 mm
Thickness: 10.23 mm
Weight: 13.2 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 7th June 2007 - Friday 8th June 2007
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Other reference: 500.3
Museum accession number: TRURI 2011.23
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SW4526
Four figure Latitude: 50.079285
Four figure longitude: -5.565627
1:25K map: SW4526
1:10K map: SW46NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Bond, C. | 2005 | PAS Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics | London | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | 126, Fig. 5.113 | 5 |