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CORE
Unique ID: PUBLIC-3AF0E7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Multi platform core with opposing platforms. 'Parallel detachment core'. Irregular flake and blade removals. Some of the flake removals terminate in hinged and step fractures. The platform faces are irregular, sub circular, in plan. There is gloss and indentations running the length of the core in one concentrated area- possibly as a result of the core being used as an anvil once it became exhausted. One platform appears to have been struck hard on the platform edge leaving partially adhering flakes and conchodial rippling. The pebble cortex remains on one face.
Butler (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 156, Fig 65, No 1 which dates to the Later Neolithic.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 2500 BC
Date to: 2100 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35.1 mm
Width: 28.9 mm
Thickness: 21.9 mm
Weight: 34.95 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 7th June 2007 - Thursday 7th June 2007
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 499.7
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.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butler, C. | 2005 | Prehistoric Flintwork | Stroud | The History Press | 156, Fig 65 | No 1 |
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