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HAMMERSTONE
Unique ID: CPAT-46AD6C
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cobble-sized irregular lump of flint with several areas of crushing suggestive of past use as a hammerstone. It also appears that at least one flake may have been struck from it. A roughly triangular area of whitish cortex survives on one surface, elsewhere the flint ranges in colour from cream to light green-grey to green-black. A chance find whilst metal detecting (Jeff Spencer, CPAT, January 2015).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 62.2 mm
Width: 51.5 mm
Thickness: 50.6 mm
Weight: 168 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st December 2014
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: CPAT PRN131070
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Uncertain
Spatial metadata
Region: Wales (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Powys (Unitary Authority)
District: Powys (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Welshpool (Community)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SJ2210
Four figure Latitude: 52.68205788
Four figure longitude: -3.15522961
1:25K map: SJ2210
1:10K map: SJ21SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
No references cited so far.
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