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HAMMERSTONE

Unique ID: PUBLIC-D7B6A4

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A thick facetted chunk of translucent dark grey flint with grey inclusions. It has the form of a multi-platform core and may have been considered exhausted for that purpose after producing large flakes. Some of the edges have been locally severely battered with overlapping small hard hammer strikes. It may have been a strike-a-light but Clarke(1970) illustrates sharper edged fabricators( with 'iron ore') for that purpose. A kind of hammerstone is suggested. Butler(2005) illustrates some as part of a flint knapper's tool kit in colour plate 6.

Subsequent actions

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

Chronology

Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 4500 BC
Date to: Circa 800 BC

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 40.6 mm
Width: 24.8 mm
Thickness: 35.9 mm
Weight: 48.5 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st April 2004 - Friday 30th April 2004

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: 22.6
Museum accession number: 2011.23

Materials and construction

Primary material: Flint
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: SW4627
Four figure Latitude: 50.088689
Four figure longitude: -5.552343
1:25K map: SW4627
1:10K map: SW47SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 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

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Butler, C.	2005	Prehistoric Flintwork	Stroud	The History Press		colour plate 6.
Clarke, D.L.	1970	Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland	Cambridge University	Cambridge University Press

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Created: 12 years ago
Updated: 12 years ago

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