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CORE

Unique ID: PUBLIC-BF4577

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A large mid grey flint pebble, broken in half to reveal a large coarse orangey inclusion. The margin of the boken facet has been radially worked from the cortical edge to leave thin small step fracture terminated flake scars. Internal cracks and the inclusion must have discouraged further efforts.Butler(2005) illustrates later Bronze Age cores including p.180, fig.74, 3 which has some of the flakes removed from a cortical platform.

Subsequent actions

Current location of find: Royal Cornwall Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum

Chronology

Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 2150 BC
Date to: Circa 800 BC

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 51.4 mm
Width: 64.2 mm
Thickness: 37.1 mm
Weight: 132 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 14th June 2007 - Thursday 14th June 2007

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: 504B.1
Museum accession number: 2011.23

Materials and construction

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

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Paul (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

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.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Fieldwalking
Current location: Royal Cornwall Museum
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth less than 0.25 m

References cited

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Recording Institution: PUBLIC
Created: 12 years ago
Updated: 12 years ago

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