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CORE
Unique ID: PUBLIC-743F30
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A core worked on a nodule of cream patinated flint showing as dark brown from some recent chipping in the ploughed soil. The core has been worked from 2 platforms at an acute angle to each other and might be called a keeled core. If the flakes had been removed all around the edge it might have been called a discoidal core. As it has been worked alternately from both sides of one mostly straight edge it could even be called a chopper core; suggesting a tool use. One face is dominated by a final very large flake removal; truncating the flake scars on that side. The other side shows platform preparation for this removal with 3 equal bold scars in a line to produce a prominence. These scars have had their (negative) bulbs of percussion removed by the flake removal and hence left a facetted butt on that final flake. This shows that at least the final flake was a Levallois technique removal and perhaps the whole core preparation was leading up to this flake. Although chopper and Levallois technique is ancient and may be Lower Paleolithic and better known in the Middle Paleolithic, it re-occurs in the Neolithic and is reported in Kent ( Google: Late Neolithic Levallois core from All Saints Avenue, Margate) where flint is plentiful for a relatively wasteful technique. Nearby to this findspot (Tags: Hoath, TQ7965), flintwork is dominantly Mesolithic to Bronze Age and this degree of patination is usual on fairly recent flintwork on chalk downland.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Heamoor
Subsequent action after recording: In a private collection, recorded for academic use
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2900 BC
Date to: Circa 1500 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 87 mm
Width: 44 mm
Thickness: 63 mm
Weight: 245 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 22nd December 2005 - Friday 30th December 2005
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 331.1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
To be known as: Spekes Bottom
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bond, C. | 2005 | PAS Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics | London | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | 148 | fig 5.134 |
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