HESH-826496: Neolithic: Tertiary Debitage

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DEBITAGE

Unique ID: HESH-826496

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Two fine waste flakes, tertiary debitage, from the final phase of tool making dated broadly to the late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age periods (3500 - 1800 BC). The flint is a mid cream grey colour. There is no obvious reworking to form a known tool type. The fineness (thinness) of the flakes suggests that these maybe from the final stage of working. One of the flakes maybe burnt as is slightly crystalline in nature

The debitage measures

1. 27.9mm length, 20.4mm width and is 2.8mm thick; it weighs 1.59 grams

2. 22.2mm length, 17.8mm width and is 3.3mm thick; it weighs 1.28 grams

Class: Tertiary

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 1800 BC

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 2

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Materials and construction

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

Spatial metadata

Region: West Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
District: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Grafton (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SO5136
Four figure Latitude: 52.02024445
Four figure longitude: -2.71547667
1:25K map: SO5136
1:10K map: SO53NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth greater than 0.25m

References cited

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Recording Institution: HESH
Created: 12 years ago
Updated: 11 years ago

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