Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: PUBLIC-872D25
Object type certainty: Certain
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This piece was probably a beach pebble of pasty shape. Cortex has been removed from both faces to enhance the sharpness of one margin without having to remove further flakes. The sharp edge is blunted in the middle section, probably from use wear rather than from abrupt retouch, but it is quite abraded. Cortex ha sbeen retained as a backing.
It is made from a light grey flint with cream inclusions. It was probably derived from a local beach pebble by the look of its secondary cortex.
Butler (2004) has a similar piece on Page 129 Fig 54 No 4, which he calls a backed knife and dates to the Neolithic.
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
Date from: Circa 4500 BC
Date to: Circa 2100 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 33.5 mm
Width: 19.6 mm
Thickness: 9.4 mm
Weight: 6.5 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 9th June 2004 - Saturday 19th June 2004
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Other reference: 60.8
Museum accession number: TRURI 2011.23
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
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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Butler, C. | 2005 | Prehistoric Flintwork | Stroud | The History Press | 129 Fig 54 | 4 |