Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: PUBLIC-971B64
Object type certainty: Certain
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A triangular section bladelet of translucent, faintly cream brown fine flint.The proximal end has been removed with abrupt retouch on both lateral margins forming a strong point. The distal end has been straight truncated. It may have snapped off when the tool was used as a piercer or awl. Berridge(1986) illustrates a piercer on page 16, fig 5, 8.
Current location of find: Royal Cornwall Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 8300 BC
Date to: Circa 4500 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 23.1 mm
Width: 7.1 mm
Thickness: 2.6 mm
Weight: 0.7 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st July 2004 - Friday 30th July 2004
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Other reference: 91.12
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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Berridge, P. and Roberts, A. | 1986 | The Mesolithic period in Cornwall | Redruth | Cornwall Lithographic Printers Limited | 16 | fig 5, 8 |