Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: PUBLIC-E2B5F4
Object type certainty: Certain
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A short thin flake of translucent brown flint with creamy cloudiness, removed by a soft hammer. There is abrupt retouch on the left margin and some on the mesal part of the right margin with some dorsal use gloss at the distal end. Mercer(1981) illustrates a small edged flake on page 137, fig 60, L166.
Current location of find: Royal Cornwall Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4500 BC
Date to: Circa 2100 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 16.4 mm
Width: 9.3 mm
Thickness: 2.6 mm
Weight: 0.4 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 9th June 2004 - Wednesday 9th June 2004
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Other reference: 59.12
Museum accession number: 2011.23
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.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Mercer, R.J. | 1981 | Excavations at Carn Brea, Illogan, Cornwall, 1970-73 | Callington | Penwell Ltd. | 137 | fig 60, L166 |