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CORE
Unique ID: GLO-EEDDFC
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Early Bronze Age / Beaker Period core that has been made from the cutting end of a Neolithic polished axe. The remaining polished area is on the dorsal side where the slope of the cutting edge is visible in profile. Plus the original polished surface is still partly retained on the left side. The top left corner of the axe head is missing, this is a result of frost damage in the forming of heavy pitting that runs from the distal end and down the right side. There is a large flaking scar on the ventral side, this is partially obscured but pitted frost damage. Finally there are large flaking scares at the proximal end on dorsal side.
Mid grey flint with lighter small creamy patch in the middle of the proximal end. Where the polished areas are retained the flint is slightly darker.
The remaining areas of polishing show that this artefact would have originally had a tapering profile similar to a Neolithic polished axe. Whereas the retouch would be more consistent with Early Bronze Age core flaking technology such as the examples found at Pond Barrow in Dorset (Bond, 2004, 148)
Class:
discoidal
Evidence of reuse: Retouch the has removed original surface
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 1800 BC
Period of reuse: BRONZE AGE
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 56 mm
Width: 52 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight: 74.87 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st December 2010 - Monday 1st December 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
District: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Portbury (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST5073
Four figure Latitude: 51.4537613
Four figure longitude: -2.72097442
1:25K map: ST5073
1:10K map: ST57SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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