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Unique ID: NLM-11BD2A
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
Brown fine-grained sandstone water-rolled cobble, hammerstone. An oval cobble with an ancient chip towards one end, subsequently smoothed by wave, water or erosive wind action. The narrower end bears a zone measuring c.50mm by c.40mm of tiny indentations which appear pale r and rougher than the rest of the surface. The finder credibly suggests this to result from the use of this object as a hard hammer to work flint, and the object was indeed reported along with a range of flint-working debris. As most of this accompanying material is ascribed a Late Mesolithic date, this seems apt here. Suggested date: Late Mesolithic, 7000-4000 BC,
Length: 96mm, Width: 71.3mm, Thickness: 34.5mm, Weight: c.315gms
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MESOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MESOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 7000 BC
Date to: Circa 4000 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 96 mm
Width: 71.3 mm
Thickness: 34.5 mm
Weight: 315 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 22nd February 2018
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Other reference: NLM38826
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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