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HAMMERSTONE
Unique ID: LANCUM-9E4FAF
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Smooth stone probably dating to the later prehistoric period 3500 to 800BC. Probably quartzite and is sub-oval in plan, lenticular in profile and in section. It may have been used as a hammerstones which are hard cobbles used to strike lithic flakes during the process of lithic reduction or crushing minerals. It may also be a rubbing stone used in the manufacture of hide or within a saddle quern to grind grain.
The length is 150mm, the width is 140mm and the weight too heavy for scales.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 8300 BC
Date to: Circa 800 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 150 mm
Width: 140 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 6th October 2016 - Thursday 6th October 2016
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
District: Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: North Turton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SD7316
Four figure Latitude: 53.63981217
Four figure longitude: -2.40984861
1:25K map: SD7316
1:10K map: SD71NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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