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Unique ID: CORN-2D9AE8
Object type certainty: Certain
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Fragment of greenstone cobble, triangular in plan, C-shaped in profile and semi-circular in section. The upper surface is rising at an 80-70 degree angle to the top of the stone, which would have been quite rounded, and the base has been ground flat, with two separate smooth-worn facets on the upper and lower faces, probably from use as a rubbing stone. This is one of a group of cobbles found in the same area, made of various materials, that were used as domestic artefacts such as mullers, rubbers and whetstones. All of these would be at home on a Middle Bronze Age settlement. Unfortunately we know insufficient about the range of stone artefacts used in Neolithic Cornwall to make any definitive statement. Obviously the whetstones could not be of this date but there seems no reason why the other artefacts could not be Neolithic. This group has not been examined by Roger Taylor, and provisional identifications are being provided by Henrietta Quinnell (Henrietta Quinnell, Clodgy Moor stonework, forthcoming).
Examples of rubbing stones have been found on Bronze Age sites in Cornwall, such as the Early Bronze Age site at Stannon Down, St Breward, illustrated in Jones (2008) on page 91, Fig.31, No.SF63, or the Middle Bronze Age settlement at Trethellan, Newquay, illustrated in Nowakowski (1991) on page 142, Fig.57, No.86.
Class: rubber
Current location of find: Royal Cornwall Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Donated to a museum
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2100 BC
Date to: Circa 700 BC
Quantity: 1
Height: 51 mm
Width: 42 mm
Thickness: 24.5 mm
Weight: 63.75 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 17th December 2009 - Thursday 17th December 2009
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Other reference: 570.5
Museum accession number: 2011.23
Primary material: Stone
Manufacture method: Ground/polished
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SW4526
Four figure Latitude: 50.079285
Four figure longitude: -5.565627
1:25K map: SW4526
1:10K map: SW46SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Jones, A.M. | 2008 | Settlement and Ceremony: archaeological investigations at Stannon Down, St. Breward, Cornwall | Bristol | 4word Ltd. | 91, Fig.31, | No.SF63 | |
Nowakowski, J. | 1991 | Trethellan Farm, Newquay: The excavation of a lowland Bronze Age settlement and Iron Age cemetery | Redruth | Cornwall Lithographic Printers Ltd. | 142, Fig.57, | No.86 |