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HAMMERSTONE

Unique ID: DOR-A3B4E2

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A fragment of banded quartzitie pebble which has a smoothed surface and a well defined angled facet where it has probably been used in a polishing or abrading process. One end of a rounded, water-worn pebble of banded grey and pink quartzite.
Date: Neolithic to Post Medieval (probably) - 4000 BC to AD 1700
Dimensions: 56.5 mm x 35.5 mm x 36.5 mm
Weight: 10.3 g

Class: Polishing stone

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa AD 1700

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 56.5 mm
Width: 35.5 mm
Thickness: 36.5 mm

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: SCMS 020798

Materials and construction

Primary material: Stone
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Fifehead Magdalen (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: ST7820
Four figure Latitude: 50.97898407
Four figure longitude: -2.31474914
1:25K map: ST7820
1:10K map: ST72SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth less than 0.25 m

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Recording Institution: DOR
Created: 9 years ago
Updated: 2 years ago

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